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Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress, CVE-2025-15521

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-15521

Published on
Jan 21, 2026
Research Description
The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password and relying solely on a publicly-exposed nonce for authorization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's password, including administrators, and gain access to their account.
Affected versions
max 3.5.1.
Status
vulnerable