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GHSA-9Q79-WRFC-V96H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-15 15:30 – Updated: 2025-12-15 15:30

Details

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.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2025-14156 (GCVE-0-2025-14156)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-15 14:25 – Updated: 2025-12-15 14:50

Title

Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin 1.0.4.7 - 1.0.5.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'createOrder'

Summary

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.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-12-15 14:49 UTC

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

Wordfence CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2253 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
ays-pro	Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin	Affected: 1.0.4.7 , ≤ 1.0.5.1 (semver)

Credits

Kenneth Dunn

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