CVE-2026-104915
Vulnérabilité moyenne dans Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning (kodezen)
Description
The Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to permanently delete arbitrary Academy lesson comments and their replies authored by any user, including administrators, across courses they do not instruct. This is exploitable by any user registered as an Academy instructor for at least one course, as they can supply their own course_id to pass the instructor check while targeting comments belonging to entirely different courses.
Gravité et risque d'exploitation
CVE-2026-104915 obtient un score CVSS de 6.5/10, soit une gravité moyenne. Selon le modèle EPSS, la probabilité qu'elle soit exploitée dans les 30 prochains jours est de 0.23 %, ce qui la place devant 13.0 % des CVE référencées.
Que faire ?
- Vérifiez si Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning (versions <=4.0.3, 0) est présent sur votre parc.
- Appliquez le correctif ou la version corrigée indiqués dans les références de l'éditeur.
- À défaut de correctif, limitez l'exposition (filtrage réseau, désactivation du composant).
- Automatisez la détection : les agents CVE Heimdall (gratuits, open source) corrèlent l'inventaire de vos serveurs avec la base CVE.
Références
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2640d1f8-958d-4556-919c-58df5bf15b40?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L496
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L477
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L480
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/ajax/miscellaneous.php#L469
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/classes/abstract-ajax-handler.php#L43
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/traits/courses.php#L380
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3734598%40academy&new=3734598%40academy
