Unauthenticated Post Trashing in LifterLMS Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-2290

5.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Lifterlms – WP Lms For Elearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 March 2025

What is CVE-2025-2290?

The LifterLMS plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a security flaw that allows unauthenticated users to modify the status of published posts by changing them to 'Trash'. This vulnerability arises from a lack of capability checks within the 'delete_access_plan' function and associated AJAX calls, affecting all versions of the plugin up to and including 8.0.1. As a result, this can lead to unauthorized content management, severely impacting the availability of website data.

Affected Version(s)

LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes * <= 8.0.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3257328/lift...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Michael Mazzolini
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CVE-2025-2290 : Unauthenticated Post Trashing in LifterLMS Plugin for WordPress