CVE-2024-12596 Missing authorization in LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes

What is CVE-2024-12596?

CVE-2024-12596 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes, published on 18 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary post deletion due to a missing capability check on the 'llms_delete_cert' action in all versions up to, and including, 7.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12596?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Lifterlms Lifterlms.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12596?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-12596 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12596 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes

• CVE-2020-6008 File upload in LifterLMS Wordpress Plugin Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-15896 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-52717 WordPress LifterLMS plugin <= 8.0.6 - SQL Injection Vulnerability Critical 9.3
• CVE-2024-4743 LifterLMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for eLearning <= 7.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via Shortcode High 8.8
• CVE-2021-24562 LifterLMS < 4.21.2 - Access Other Student Grades/Answers via IDOR High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jvgf-674p-mqxg.