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CVE-2024-10008: Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress <= 1.13.3 - Authenticated (Student+) Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user profile modification due to missing authorization checks on the /wp-json/masteriyo/v1/users/$id REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to modify the roles of arbitrary users. As a result, attackers can escalate their privileges to the Administrator and demote existing administrators to students.

Affected products

• Masteriyo - LMS: before 1.13.4 — fixed in 1.13.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Masteriyo - LMS 1.13.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learning-management-system/tags/1.13.3//includes/RestApi/Controllers/Version1/UsersController.php#L1726
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0c54166e-2af2-409d-8c67-9c07f2028543?source=cve

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