# CVE-2025-14802: Missing authorization in LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses

> Authenticated instructors can delete arbitrary lesson materials from other teachers due to a parameter mismatch in the REST API authorization check.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **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:** 7 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c6ww-cj2q-f8xm

## What is CVE-2025-14802?

CVE-2025-14802 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses, published on 7 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized file deletion in versions up to, and including, 4.3.2.2 via the /wp-json/lp/v1/material/{file_id} REST API endpoint. This is due to a parameter mismatch between the DELETE operation and authorization check, where the endpoint uses file_id from the URL path but the permission callback validates item_id from the request body. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with teacher-level access, to delete arbitrary lesson material files uploaded by other teachers via sending a DELETE request with their own item_id (to pass authorization) while targeting another teacher's file_id.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14802?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-14802?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14802 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14802 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14802 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14802 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14802 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses, published on 7 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14802 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses. 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-2025-14802/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14802/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14802
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14802
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14802

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14802/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.