# CVE-2024-1505: Privilege escalation in Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution

> Authenticated users can escalate privileges to administrator by exploiting arbitrary user meta updates in the Academy 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:** 13 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-grmc-pw34-vq48

## What is CVE-2024-1505?

CVE-2024-1505 is a high-severity vulnerability in kodezen Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution, published on 13 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.19. This is due to plugin allowing arbitrary user meta updates through the saved_user_info() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as students, to elevate their user role to that of an administrator.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1505?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Kodezen Academy Lms.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-1505?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1505 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1505 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1505 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in kodezen Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution

- [CVE-2024-33912](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-33912/): WordPress Academy LMS plugin <= 1.9.16 - Broken Access Control on Paid Courses vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-35171](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35171/): WordPress Academy LMS plugin <= 1.9.25 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-38701](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38701/): WordPress Academy LMS plugin <= 2.0.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-32714](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32714/): WordPress Academy LMS plugin <= 1.9.16 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1505 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1505 is a high-severity vulnerability in kodezen Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution, published on 13 Mar 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-2024-1505 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: kodezen Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution. 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-2024-1505/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1505/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1505
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1505
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1505

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1505/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.