CVE-2024-10008: Masteriyo

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user profile modification due to missing authorization checks on the /wp-json/masteriyo/v1/users/$id REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to modify the roles of arbitrary users. As a result, attackers can escalate their privileges to the Administrator and demote existing administrators to students.

Affected products

• Masteriyo Masteriyo: before 1.13.4 (fixed in 1.13.4)

Published 2024-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.