CVE-2024-1505: Kodezen Academy Lms

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.19. This is due to plugin allowing arbitrary user meta updates through the saved_user_info() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as students, to elevate their user role to that of an administrator.

Affected products

• Kodezen Academy Lms: before 1.9.20 (fixed in 1.9.20)

Published 2024-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.