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CVE-2025-2290: LifterLMS <= 8.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Post Trashing

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Post Trashing due to a missing capability check on the delete_access_plan function and the related AJAX calls in all versions up to, and including, 8.0.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change status to "Trash" for every published post, therefore limiting the availability of the website's content.

Affected products

• chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes: before 8.0.2 — fixed in 8.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes 8.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3257328/lifterlms/trunk/includes/class.llms.ajax.handler.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f64dbf2-b75a-4a35-9b4e-413b8fd1fff0?source=cve

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