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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

CVE-2024-5438

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.1 via the 'attempt_delete' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Instructor-level access and above, to delete arbitrary quiz attempts.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published