Privilege escalation via missing instructor-role checks
Published Oct 14, 2025 · Updated Oct 14, 2025
Privilege escalation in Creativeitem Academy LMS 5.13 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to access instructor-only API functions. The Api_instructor controller accepts any valid JWT user_id but never checks the account's is_instructor flag before dispatching privileged endpoint actions. Any regular account can create or alter courses, view instructor data, and change instructor profile or password information.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Creativeitem Academy LMS 5.13 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to access instructor-only API functions. The Api_instructor controller accepts any valid JWT user_id but never checks the account's is_instructor flag before dispatching privileged endpoint actions. Any regular account can create or alter courses, view instructor data, and change instructor profile or password information.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-56747
- Published
- Oct 14, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 14, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1548
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 14, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 14, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Academy LMS Api_instructor credentialed proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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