The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 4.0.7 via the tutor_quiz_builder_save AJAX action due to missing validation that nested question_id, answer_id, deleted_question_ids[], and deleted_answer_ids[] values in the submitted payload belong to a quiz/topic/course the requester is authorized to manage. The handler only validates the top-level course_id, topic_id, and (when supplied) payload['ID'], but the nested identifiers are passed straight into $wpdb->update/DELETE statements in QuizBuilder::save_questions(), QuizBuilder::save_question_answers(), and QuizBuilder::handle_delete(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Instructor-level access and above, to overwrite the content and re-parent arbitrary quiz questions/answers belonging to other instructors or administrators, and to delete arbitrary quiz question and answer rows.
CVE-2026-18439
Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-22. A secondary CVSS source baseline 4.3; 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.
- CVSS v3
- 4.3
- EG Score
- 4.3MEDIUMhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 19EG Risk 19/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity43% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.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
- 0.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 14th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack 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). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
September 22, 2026
Last Modified
September 23, 2026
References (12)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.10/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L156
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.10/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L291
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.10/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L423
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.10/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L430
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.10/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L781
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.3/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L156
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.3/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L291
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.3/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L423
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.3/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L430
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.3/classes/QuizBuilder.php#L781
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3690454/tutor/tags/4.0.8/classes/QuizBuilder.php
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d07c82d-262a-4ac1-9ee5-7ef4d025f66f?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18439(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 19× in last 7d / 37× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-04 12:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-04 12:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-03 13:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-03 13:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-02 13:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-02 13:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-01 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 15:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 15:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-29 15:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-29 15:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-28 16:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-28 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-27 17:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-27 17:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-26 17:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-26 17:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-09-25 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-24 18:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-24 18:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-23 19:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-23 19:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-23 18:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-23 18:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-22 19:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-22 19:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-22 08:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-22 07:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-22 07:50 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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