HomeCVE-2025-15521

CVE-2025-15521

CRITICAL
9.8CVSS
Published: 2026-01-21
Updated: 2026-01-26
AI Analysis

Description

The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password and relying solely on a publicly-exposed nonce for authorization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's password, including administrators, and gain access to their account.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-639

Metadata

Primary Vendor
UNKNOWN
Published
1/21/2026
Last Modified
1/26/2026
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

No affected products information available.

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