The Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3. This is due to the add_child() function calling add_role('academy_student') on any existing account resolved from the attacker-supplied email parameter before Store::link() validates the guardian-ward relationship, and failing to roll back that role write when Store::link() returns a WP_Error. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the academy_guardian role or higher to elevate any existing WordPress account — including their own — to the academy_student role, gaining edit_posts (Contributor-equivalent) capabilities and, when the student file-upload setting is enabled, upload_files (Author-equivalent) capabilities not granted to the guardian role. When a guardian supplies their own email address, email_exists() resolves to their own user ID, causing Store::link() to reject the self-link, but because the add_role() call has already executed and is never reversed, the academy_student role grant on their own account persists permanently.
CVE-2026-104022
“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.
Score 5.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-10-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.4; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (Wordfence), states the affected versions: "The Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.
- CVSS v3
- 5.4
- EG Score
- 5.4MEDIUMhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 24EG Risk 24/100
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How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity54% × 45%The EG Score, 5.4 of 10.Exploitation0.1% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. - EPSS PROB
- 0.1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 1st
- KEV
- Not listed
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
October 10, 2026
Last Modified
October 11, 2026
References (6)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/guardian/rest-api.php#L138
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/guardian/rest-api.php#L160
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/guardian/rest-api.php#L85
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.2/includes/guardian/store.php#L39
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3734598%40academy&new=3734598%40academy
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a54dd9e5-59e7-4655-9f64-e198deda1383?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-104022(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 13× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
- 2026-10-11 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 17:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vxgf-qvq7-h87v · GitHub CVSS 5.4
- 2026-10-11 17:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vxgf-qvq7-h87v · GitHub CVSS 5.4
- 2026-10-11 15:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
- 2026-10-11 02:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vxgf-qvq7-h87v · GitHub CVSS 5.4
- 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
- 2026-10-10 03:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-10 02:40 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 5.4 MEDIUM
- 2026-10-10 02:40 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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