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CVE-2025-14156: Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin 1.0.4.7 - 1.0.5.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'createOrder'

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-15 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating the 'role' parameter when creating new users via the `/fox-lms/v1/payments/create-order` REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with arbitrary roles, including administrator, leading to complete site compromise.

Affected products

• ays-pro Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin: from 1.0.4.7 through 1.0.5.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ffox-lms%2Ftags%2F1.0.5.0%2Fincludes%2Frest%2FPayments.php&new_path=%2Ffox-lms%2Ftags%2F1.0.5.2%2Fincludes%2Frest%2FPayments.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/de4f8d45-9522-4a32-bc98-be8dbf3a5cf1?source=cve

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