CVE-2025-2290 LifterLMS <= 8.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Post Trashing

What is CVE-2025-2290?

CVE-2025-2290 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes, published on 19 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Post Trashing due to a missing capability check on the delete_access_plan function and the related AJAX calls in all versions up to, and including, 8.0.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change status to "Trash" for every published post, therefore limiting the availability of the website's content.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2290?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Lifterlms Lifterlms.

How do I fix CVE-2025-2290?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2290 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-2025-2290 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2290 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-6gfj-hx6v-9w5q.