Vulnerability in Themeum Tutor Lms – Elearning And Online Course Solution
CVE-2026-16759
The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution limited to zero-argument function invocation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.5 via the tutor_course_filter_ajax AJAX action. This is due to missing authorization on the handler combined with unsanitized array keys being passed to extract() inside tutor_load_template(), allowing attacker-controlled POST data to overwrite the local $template variable and, in the resulting templates/single-content-loader.php template, the $method_map and $context variables invoked at $method_map[$context](). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to call an arbitrary zero-argument PHP function server-side and, via WordPress core edit_user(), to create a persistent subscriber-level account from request parameters.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (48.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.006 · change: +0.002
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/65f68a49-8ded-479f-a9c3-18770…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/templates/single-content-lo…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/templates/single-content-lo…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/includes/tutor-template-fun…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/includes/tutor-template-fun…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/classes/Course_Filter.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/classes/Course_Filter.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3653079/tutor/trunk/templates/single-conte…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-16759?
- CVE-2026-16759 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Themeum Tutor Lms – Elearning And Online Course Solution, classified under Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component (Injection). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-28.
- How severe is CVE-2026-16759?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.