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CVE-2026-15309

8.8, high

WishList Member CourseCure Courses Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

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CVSS
8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
n/a
Exploitation
No public evidence
Published
12 Nov 2026yesterday

Description

The CourseCure Courses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.5.1. This is due to a missing capability check in the ajax_save_settings() function, which accepts arbitrary POST parameters and calls update_option() with attacker-controlled keys and values without any authorization verification. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to administrator by setting the default_role WordPress option to 'administrator' and users_can_register to '1', then registering a new account that is automatically granted full administrator access.

Details

Vendor
WishList Member
Product
CourseCure Courses
Weakness
CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Deferred
Updated
12 Nov 2026
Assigner
security@wordfence.com

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

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 13 Nov 2026, not the live upstream state.