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MasterStudy LMS EUVDEUVD-2026-82678

| CVE-2026-88844 LOW
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639)
2026-09-18 WPScan GHSA-g869-5rh7-8rvf
2.7
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: WPScan
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain Instructor-role account
  2. Exploit
    Request another instructor's course data
  3. Execution
    Server skips ownership check
  4. Impact
    Harvest enrolled students' names and emails

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated account holding the MasterStudy LMS 'Instructor' role on a site running the plugin before version 3.7.50 (affected from 3.6.2). The attacker must reference a course owned by a different instructor; the vulnerable endpoint returns enrolled-student data without verifying course ownership. Limiting factors: exploitation is gated on holding an Instructor-role account (not available to anonymous visitors or plain subscribers), and impact is confined to disclosure of student names and email addresses - no write access, no privilege escalation, and no availability impact. Sites that do not grant or allow self-registration of the Instructor role substantially reduce exposure.

Impact

This is a genuinely low-severity issue that should not be a top priority despite a public POC. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity attack but requires privileged access - a MasterStudy LMS Instructor-role account - and yields only confidentiality impact (C:L, I:N, A:N). The impact is a cross-tenant IDOR (CWE-639): an authenticated instructor reads the names and email addresses of students enrolled in OTHER instructors' courses, i.e. PII disclosure, not code execution or data modification. Publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan), which raises practical exploitability, but no EPSS score and no CISA KEV listing are provided, so there is no evidence of active or widespread exploitation. Signals are consistent: a low-CVSS, privilege-gated PII leak with a POC but no exploitation telemetry. One point of tension worth noting: the vendor's PR:H rating is debatable - Instructor is a mid-tier granted role rather than an administrator, so PR:L is arguably more accurate, which would raise the base score modestly; verify the exact privilege of the Instructor role in your deployment.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker obtains or registers a MasterStudy LMS Instructor account on a target WordPress site (instructor registration is a common feature on LMS sites). They invoke the enrolled-student data endpoint referencing a course_id belonging to a different instructor; because ownership is never checked, the server returns the names and email addresses of students enrolled in that course. Publicly available exploit code from WPScan demonstrates the request.

Monitor Track and reassess. Why: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9).
Patch available 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 18, 2026

MasterStudy LMS WordPress plugin before 3.7.50 fails to verify that an Instructor-role user owns a course before returning its enrolled-student data, allowing disclosure of student names and email addresses for other instructors' courses. Publicly available exploit code exists, and vendor has released patched version 3.7.50. The independent assessment rates this as genuinely low severity (CVSS 2.7) because exploitation requires an authenticated Instructor account and only exposes limited personal data with no write or privilege-escalation impact.

RemediationAI

Upgrade the MasterStudy LMS WordPress plugin to version 3.7.50 or later, which is the vendor-released patch that adds the missing ownership check. If immediate upgrading is not possible, reduce exposure by disabling self-registration for the Instructor role or restricting Instructor accounts to trusted users, and audit existing Instructor accounts for unauthorized access; note that limiting Instructor registration may disrupt legitimate course-creation workflows. There is no known configuration toggle to disable the vulnerable endpoint alone, so role restriction is the primary compensating control. Monitor access logs for Instructor-account requests to student-listing endpoints as a detection measure. Refer to the WPScan advisory (https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/13b4f5c4-db4a-4bc2-b092-07747ee790e6/) for additional details.

Affected VersionsENISA

MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin 3.6.2 <3.7.50

Affected Packages

euvd masterstudy_lms_wordpress_plugin fix: 3.7.50

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The issue is an authorization bypass through user-controlled key (CWE-639, commonly known as insecure direct object reference or IDOR) in a WordPress plugin. The vulnerable endpoint, accessible to users with the Instructor role, accepts a course identifier without confirming that the requesting instructor is the owner of that course, thereby returning enrolled-student records (names and email addresses) for any referenced course. CPE data identifies the affected component as the MasterStudy LMS WordPress plugin (cpe:2.3:a:unknown:masterstudy_lms_wordpress_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) with affected versions from 3.6.2 up to but not including 3.7.50 per EUVD. Authentication is required (assessed vector PR:L; NVD vector PR:H) and the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low complexity, but only impacts confidentiality to a limited degree.

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Severity by source

Vendor (WPScan) PRIMARY 2.7 LOW
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Instructor is a mid-tier granted role (PR:L, not admin PR:H); missing ownership check needs no interaction (AC:L/UI:N); impact is limited PII read only (C:L, I:N, A:N).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).

CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Patch available
Sep 18, 2026 - 07:01 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 18, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Sep 18, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
LOW 2.7

DescriptionCVE.org

The MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.7.50 does not verify that the requesting user owns the course before returning its enrolled-student data, allowing users with the MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.7.50's Instructor role to disclose the names and email addresses of students enrolled in other instructors' courses.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 97% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular WordPress LMS plugin, roughly 100k+ active installs
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity LOW
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.1%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Low
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

34
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +14
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0
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