# CVE-2025-11923: Privilege escalation in LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes

> Authenticated students can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying their own role via the REST API due to insufficient validation.

- **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 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 13 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-94p8-7w5j-wvcj

## What is CVE-2025-11923?

CVE-2025-11923 is a high-severity vulnerability in chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes, published on 13 Nov 2025. 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 privilege escalation. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to allowing them to modify their own role via the REST API. The permission check in the update_item_permissions_check() function returns true when a user updates their own account without verifying the role changes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by updating their own roles array via a crafted REST API request. Another endpoint intended for instructors also provides an attack vector. Affected version ranges are 3.5.3-3.41.2, 4.0.0-4.21.3, 5.0.0-5.10.0, 6.0.0-6.11.0, 7.0.0-7.8.7, 8.0.0-8.0.7, 9.0.0-9.0.7, 9.1.0.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11923?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-11923?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11923 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-11923 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11923 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-11923 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-11923 is a high-severity vulnerability in chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes, published on 13 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11923 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-2025-11923/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11923/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11923
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11923
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11923

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11923/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.