CVE-2025-13542 (GCVE-0-2025-13542)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-02 19:27 – Updated: 2025-12-02 19:36
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
DesignThemes DesignThemes LMS Affected: * , ≤ 1.0.4 (semver)
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Credits
Ismail Syaleh
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