# CVE-2024-10008: Missing authorization in Masteriyo LMS – Online Course Builder for eLearning, LMS & Education

> Authenticated students can escalate privileges to Administrator or demote admins via missing authorization checks in the Masteriyo LMS plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x599-839j-7f7f

## What is CVE-2024-10008?

CVE-2024-10008 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Masteriyo LMS – Online Course Builder for eLearning, LMS & Education, published on 29 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user profile modification due to missing authorization checks on the /wp-json/masteriyo/v1/users/$id REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to modify the roles of arbitrary users. As a result, attackers can escalate their privileges to the Administrator and demote existing administrators to students.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10008?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Masteriyo Masteriyo.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10008?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10008 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10008 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10008 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Masteriyo LMS – Online Course Builder for eLearning, LMS & Education

- [CVE-2024-43158](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43158/): WordPress Masteriyo LMS plugin <= 1.11.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-10000](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10000/): Cross-site scripting in Masteriyo LMS – Online Course Builder for eLearning, LMS & Education (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-43159](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43159/): WordPress Masteriyo LMS plugin <= 1.11.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-43239](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43239/): WordPress Masteriyo LMS plugin <= 1.11.4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10008 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10008 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Masteriyo LMS – Online Course Builder for eLearning, LMS & Education, published on 29 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10008 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Masteriyo LMS – Online Course Builder for eLearning, LMS & Education. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10008/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10008/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10008
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10008
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10008

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10008/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.