CVE-2026-96537 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Tutor LMS WordPress plugin before 4.1.1 does not perform a capability check in a routine that regenerates its managed pages, allowing unauthenticated users to force-publish unpublished pages and overwrite their content, create missing ones, and change the options that reference them.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wordpress-extensions	Tutor Lms

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e25ac9a8-a29d-4573-9d04-402a14515fb7/

History

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Wordpress-extensions Wordpress-extensions tutor Lms
Vendors & Products		Wordpress-extensions Wordpress-extensions tutor Lms

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-284 CWE-862
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Tutor LMS WordPress plugin before 4.1.1 does not perform a capability check in a routine that regenerates its managed pages, allowing unauthenticated users to force-publish unpublished pages and overwrite their content, create missing ones, and change the options that reference them.
Title		Tutor LMS < 4.1.1 - Unauthenticated Tutor Page Force-Publish and Content Overwrite
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e25ac9a8-a29d-4573-9d04-402a14515fb7/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-10-15T06:00:14.929Z

Updated: 2026-10-15T11:01:27.071Z

Reserved: 2026-09-23T11:43:20.155Z

Link: CVE-2026-96537

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-15T10:35:54.751Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-15T07:18:03.563

Modified: 2026-10-15T14:47:05.720

Link: CVE-2026-96537

Redhat

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