CVE-2025-2290

LifterLMS <= 8.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Post Trashing

2025-03-18 00:00
mikemyers

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 8.0.2
Affected Plugin
LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes
Affected Version
<= 8.0.1
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2025-2290
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At a glance

CVE-2025-2290 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the LifterLMS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 8.0.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 8.0.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by mikemyers.

Vulnerability Overview

The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Post Trashing due to a missing capability check on the delete_access_plan function and the related AJAX calls in all versions up to, and including, 8.0.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change status to "Trash" for every published post, therefore limiting the availability of the website's content.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

LifterLMS <= 8.0.1 carries this weakness at Trash, and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For LifterLMS the fix is 8.0.2: builds <= 8.0.1 are affected, anything from 8.0.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 8.0.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: LifterLMS 8.0.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2290https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f64dbf2-b75a-4a35-9b4e-413b8fd1fff0https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2290

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