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CVE-2024-4279: Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution <= 2.7.0 - Authenticated (Instructor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Course Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Course Deletion in versions up to, and including, 2.7.0 via the 'tutor_course_delete' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This can allow authenticated attackers, with Instructor-level permissions and above, to delete any course.

Affected products

• themeum Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution: before 2.7.1 — fixed in 2.7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: themeum Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution 2.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/trunk/classes/Course_List.php#L357
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3086489/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45d04643-e43a-4732-91bf-e4af7b622e33?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/trunk/classes/Course_List.php#L357
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3086489/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45d04643-e43a-4732-91bf-e4af7b622e33?source=cve

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