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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2025-13542 EUVD-2025-200296GHSA-x53g-m6wg-v339

DesignThemes LMS <= 1.0.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Published Dec 2, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The DesignThemes LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.4. This is due to the 'dtlms_register_user_front_end' function not restricting what user roles a user can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply the 'administrator' role during registration and gain administrator access to the site.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
DesignThemes DesignThemes LMS ≤ 1.0.4 —

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