Academy LMS Pro <= 3.3.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Social Login Addon

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-11086
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published October 21, 2025
Last Updated October 22, 2025
Researcher Thái An
Description

The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.7. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's role prior to registering a user via the Social Login addon. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update their role to Administrator when registering on the site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug academy-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.7
Patched Version
  • 3.3.8
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