{"id":"CVE-2025-11923","aliases":["EUVD-2025-150405","GHSA-94p8-7w5j-wvcj"],"status":"published","title":"LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes - Various Versions - Authenticated (Student+) Privilege Escalation","description":"The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to allowing them to modify their own role via the REST API. The permission check in the update_item_permissions_check() function returns true when a user updates their own account without verifying the role changes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by updating their own roles array via a crafted REST API request. Another endpoint intended for instructors also provides an attack vector. Affected version ranges are 3.5.3-3.41.2, 4.0.0-4.21.3, 5.0.0-5.10.0, 6.0.0-6.11.0, 7.0.0-7.8.7, 8.0.0-8.0.7, 9.0.0-9.0.7, 9.1.0.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.0035,"percentile":0.28967,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"published":"2025-11-13T03:27:39Z","modified":"2026-10-18T20:10:00Z","products":[{"vendor":"chrisbadgett","product":"lifterlms – wp lms for elearning, online courses, \u0026 quizzes"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc13d13c-6b79-4bf1-8e77-c8cb836dc0c5?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lifterlms/trunk/libraries/lifterlms-rest/includes/server/class-llms-rest-students-controller.php#L386"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lifterlms/trunk/libraries/lifterlms-rest/includes/abstracts/class-llms-rest-users-controller.php#L721"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026new=3393703%40lifterlms%2Ftrunk\u0026old=3388956%40lifterlms%2Ftrunk\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail="},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11923"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-94p8-7w5j-wvcj"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-11923","title":"LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes - Various Versions - Authenticated (Student+) Privilege Escalation","description":"The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to allowing them to modify their own role via the REST API. The permission check in the update_item_permissions_check() function returns true when a user updates their own account without verifying the role changes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by updating their own roles array via a crafted REST API request. Another endpoint intended for instructors also provides an attack vector. Affected version ranges are 3.5.3-3.41.2, 4.0.0-4.21.3, 5.0.0-5.10.0, 6.0.0-6.11.0, 7.0.0-7.8.7, 8.0.0-8.0.7, 9.0.0-9.0.7, 9.1.0.","status":"published","published":"2025-11-13T03:27:39.431Z","modified":"2025-11-13T14:34:06.521Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:50.872559Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-150405","description":"The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to allowing them to modify their own role via the REST API. The permission check in the update_item_permissions_check() function returns true when a user updates their own account without verifying the role changes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by updating their own roles array via a crafted REST API request. Another endpoint intended for instructors also provides an attack vector. Affected version ranges are 3.5.3-3.41.2, 4.0.0-4.21.3, 5.0.0-5.10.0, 6.0.0-6.11.0, 7.0.0-7.8.7, 8.0.0-8.0.7, 9.0.0-9.0.7, 9.1.0.","status":"published","published":"2025-11-13T03:27:39Z","modified":"2025-11-13T14:34:06Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:49:17.986196Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-94p8-7w5j-wvcj","title":"The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes plugin for WordPress is...","description":"The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to allowing them to modify their own role via the REST API. The permission check in the update_item_permissions_check() function returns true when a user updates their own account without verifying the role changes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by updating their own roles array via a crafted REST API request. Another endpoint intended for instructors also provides an attack vector. Affected version ranges are 3.5.3-3.41.2, 4.0.0-4.21.3, 5.0.0-5.10.0, 6.0.0-6.11.0, 7.0.0-7.8.7, 8.0.0-8.0.7, 9.0.0-9.0.7, 9.1.0.","status":"published","published":"2025-11-13T06:30:24Z","modified":"2025-11-13T06:30:30Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:04:46.9648Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-11923","description":"The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to allowing them to modify their own role via the REST API. The permission check in the update_item_permissions_check() function returns true when a user updates their own account without verifying the role changes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by updating their own roles array via a crafted REST API request. Another endpoint intended for instructors also provides an attack vector. Affected version ranges are 3.5.3-3.41.2, 4.0.0-4.21.3, 5.0.0-5.10.0, 6.0.0-6.11.0, 7.0.0-7.8.7, 8.0.0-8.0.7, 9.0.0-9.0.7, 9.1.0.","status":"published","published":"2025-11-13T04:15:44.543Z","modified":"2026-10-18T20:10:00.11Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:11:43.650381Z"}]}}