CVE-2026-104915
What it is
The Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to permanently delete arbitrary Academy lesson comments and their replies authored by any user, including administrators, across courses they do not instruct. This is exploitable by any user registered as an Academy instructor for at least one course, as they can supply their own course_id to pass the instructor check while targeting comments belonging to entirely different courses.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with a low-privilege account. High risk of data tampering.
- Exploit odds
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- ReservedThe CVE id was reserved by its CNA
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 6.5 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-862 · Missing authorization
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L469
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L477
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L480
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L496
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/classes/abstract-ajax-handler.php#L43
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/traits/courses.php#L380
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3734598%40academy&new=3734598%40academy
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2640d1f8-958d-4556-919c-58df5bf15b40?source=cve