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

> Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary posts due to missing capability checks in the LifterLMS WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 18 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jvgf-674p-mqxg

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12596?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-6008/): File upload in LifterLMS Wordpress Plugin (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-15896](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15896/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-52717](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52717/): WordPress LifterLMS plugin <= 8.0.6 - SQL Injection Vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2024-4743](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4743/): LifterLMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for eLearning <= 7.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via Shortcode (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-24562](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24562/): LifterLMS < 4.21.2 - Access Other Student Grades/Answers via IDOR (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12596 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes. 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-2024-12596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12596/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12596
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12596
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12596

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12596/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.