CVE-2025-14156

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: December 15, 2025 Modified: December 15, 2025

Description

The Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating the 'role' parameter when creating new users via the `/fox-lms/v1/payments/create-order` REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with arbitrary roles, including administrator, leading to complete site compromise.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ffox-lms%2Ftags%2F1.0.5.0%2Fincludes%2Frest%2FPayments.php&new_path=%2Ffox-lms%2Ftags%2F1.0.5.2%2Fincludes%2Frest%2FPayments.php

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/de4f8d45-9522-4a32-bc98-be8dbf3a5cf1?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

2 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

9.8 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.1%

34th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

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