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Critical · 9.8 Public exploit CVE-2025-15521 EUVD-2026-3698GHSA-2q9f-33q6-9426

Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution <= 3.5.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

Published Jan 21, 2026 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Vendor: kodezen Product: Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution Category: Web / CMS

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kodezen Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution ≤ 3.5.0 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • Nxploited/CVE-2025-15521 ★ 1 · Apr 18, 2026

    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.

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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