Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution <= 3.9.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Attachment Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2026-0548
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published January 20, 2026
Last Updated January 20, 2026
Researcher type5afe
Description

The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized attachment deletion due to a missing capability check on the `delete_existing_user_photo` function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments on the site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug tutor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.9.4
Patched Version
  • 3.9.5
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