Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution <= 2.7.0 - Authenticated (Instructor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Course Deletion

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-4279
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published May 15, 2024
Last Updated May 16, 2024
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran
Description

The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Course Deletion in versions up to, and including, 2.7.0 via the 'tutor_course_delete' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This can allow authenticated attackers, with Instructor-level permissions and above, to delete any course.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug tutor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.0
Patched Version
  • 2.7.1
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