CVE-2025-2290: LifterLMS <= 8.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Post Trashing
Description
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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-2290
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Problem Types
CWE-862 Missing AuthorizationAffected Products
Vendor: chrisbadgett
Product: LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 15.64% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-04-17 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2290https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f64dbf2-b75a-4a35-9b4e-413b8fd1fff0?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3257328/lifterlms/trunk/includes/class.llms.ajax.handler.php