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

> Unauthenticated attackers can trash published posts due to missing capability checks, impacting content availability.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6gfj-hx6v-9w5q

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2290?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](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-2025-2290 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2290 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-2025-2290/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2290/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2290
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2290
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2290

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