CVE-2026-14184 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Academy LMS WordPress plugin before 3.8.1 does not verify ownership of a user-supplied user identifier in several of its lesson AJAX handlers, allowing authenticated users with subscriber-level access to read and modify other users' lesson notes and mark other users' lesson content as completed.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00132.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Academy LMS

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.8.1

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/56a5b91b-1e1a-429d-b9e9-a1a107183124/

History

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-639
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Academy LMS WordPress plugin before 3.8.1 does not verify ownership of a user-supplied user identifier in several of its lesson AJAX handlers, allowing authenticated users with subscriber-level access to read and modify other users' lesson notes and mark other users' lesson content as completed.
Title		Academy LMS < 3.8.1 - Subscriber+ Cross-User Lesson Note and Progress Modification via IDOR
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/56a5b91b-1e1a-429d-b9e9-a1a107183124/

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-07-21T06:00:01.905Z

Updated: 2026-07-21T15:43:25.999Z

Reserved: 2026-06-30T08:11:21.762Z

Link: CVE-2026-14184

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-21T15:27:46.134Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-639

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