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Description

The DesignThemes LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.4. This is due to the 'dtlms_register_user_front_end' function not restricting what user roles a user can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply the 'administrator' role during registration and gain administrator access to the site.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-22 | Published 2025-12-02 | Updated 2025-12-02 | Assigner Wordfence




CRITICAL: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-12-02:Disclosed

Credits

Ismail Syaleh finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-3f81-47a2-b450-7074410e9f43?source=cve

themeforest.net/.../egrad-education-wordpress-theme/42803015

cve.org (CVE-2025-13542)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-13542)