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CVE-2024-4351: Tutor LMS Pro <= 2.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% 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-89

Description

The Tutor LMS Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data, modification of data, loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'authenticate' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to gain control of an existing administrator account.

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://www.themeum.com/product/tutor-lms/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59859583-49e5-4a80-8659-b9ca7ddc089d?source=cve
• https://www.themeum.com/product/tutor-lms/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59859583-49e5-4a80-8659-b9ca7ddc089d?source=cve

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