Auth bypass in Kodezen Academy Lms – WordPress Plugin For Complete Elearning Solution

CVE-2025-15521

The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password and relying solely on a publicly-exposed nonce for authorization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's password, including administrators, and gain access to their account.

Vulnerability class: IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference)

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (31.9th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 31.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-15521: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-15521?
CVE-2025-15521 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Kodezen Academy Lms – WordPress Plugin For Complete Elearning Solution, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-01-21.
How severe is CVE-2025-15521?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-15521 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.