CVE-2024-1505 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 1.9.19 of the Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress plugin. It allows authenticated users with minimal permissions, such as students, to elevate their roles to administrator due to arbitrary user meta updates via the saved_user_info() function. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.9.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kodezen:academy_lms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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