CVE-2024-2409: CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment in stylemix MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education
The MasterStudy LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This is due to insufficient validation checks within the _register_user() function called by the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_stm_lms_register' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a user with administrator-level privileges when MasterStudy LMS Pro is installed and the LMS Forms Editor add-on is enabled.
CVE-2024-2409: CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment in stylemix MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education
Description
The MasterStudy LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This is due to insufficient validation checks within the _register_user() function called by the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_stm_lms_register' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a user with administrator-level privileges when MasterStudy LMS Pro is installed and the LMS Forms Editor add-on is enabled.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-03-12T21:35:10.961Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6dafb7ef31ef0b58abd4
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:46:23 PM
Last updated: 2/26/2026, 9:41:10 AM
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