Unauthenticated Administrator access via unchecked registration role
Published Oct 22, 2025 · Updated Oct 22, 2025
Privilege escalation in Kodezen LLC Academy LMS Pro 3.3.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain Administrator access through registration. The Social Login add-on accepts a registrant-controlled role without validating it before creating the WordPress user, allowing the role to be set to Administrator. The add-on and WordPress's Anyone can register setting must be enabled, but no existing account or user interaction is required.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Kodezen LLC Academy LMS Pro 3.3.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain Administrator access through registration. The Social Login add-on accepts a registrant-controlled role without validating it before creating the WordPress user, allowing the role to be set to Administrator. The add-on and WordPress's Anyone can register setting must be enabled, but no existing account or user interaction is required.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-11086
- Published
- Oct 22, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2025
- Vendor
- Kodezen LLC
- Product
- Academy LMS Pro
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 22, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 22, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=* <=3.3.7
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