{"id":73509,"date":"2025-11-13T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-11923-lifterlms-wp-lms-for-elearning-online-courses-quizzes-various-versions-authenticated-student-privilege-escalation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:15:44","slug":"cve-2025-11923-lifterlms-wp-lms-for-elearning-online-courses-quizzes-various-versions-authenticated-student-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-11923-lifterlms-wp-lms-for-elearning-online-courses-quizzes-various-versions-authenticated-student-privilege-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-11923 &#8211; LifterLMS \u2013 WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, &amp; Quizzes &#8211; Various Versions &#8211; Authenticated (Student+) Privilege Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-11923<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Nov. 13, 2025, 4:15 a.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : The LifterLMS \u2013 WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, &amp; Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 8.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-11923 Published : Nov. 13, 2025, 4:15 a.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago Description : The LifterLMS \u2013 WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, &amp; Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user&#8217;s identity prior to allowing them to modify their own &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}