The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to and including 3.9.9. This is due to the get_course_id_by() function unconditionally trusting the user-supplied course GET parameter as the authoritative course ID for content ownership lookups, which is then consumed by can_user_manage(), the plugin's sole authorization gate for instructor-level operations, causing it to evaluate instructor membership against the attacker-controlled course rather than the course that actually owns the target content object. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with instructor-level access and above, to perform unauthorized operations on any other instructor's course content, including permanently deleting lessons, assignments, quizzes (with cascading deletion of all student attempt data), topics, announcements, and Q&A threads, as well as creating or modifying lessons, topics, and announcements in victim courses, manipulating student quiz grades, and reading unpublished lesson and quiz content.
CVE-2026-6965
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 77% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(medium)
- EG Risk
- 39(Track)EG Risk 39/100SSVC: Track
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 computedSeverity53% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 22.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 13, 2026
Last Modified
May 13, 2026
References (53)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Ajax.php#L294
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Ajax.php#L507
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Ajax.php#L586
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Announcements.php#L105
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Course.php#L1997
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Course.php#L2045
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Lesson.php#L186
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Lesson.php#L243
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Lesson.php#L341
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Q_And_A.php#L219
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Q_And_A.php#L297
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Q_And_A.php#L339
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Quiz.php#L1007
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Quiz.php#L1041
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/3.9.7/classes/Quiz.php#L888
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