CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-16759

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.43%

36th percentile - higher than 36% of all known CVEs

Summary

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. Missing authorization combined with unsanitized array keys passed to extract() inside tutor_load_template() allow attacker-controlled POST data to overwrite local variables and invoke arbitrary zero-argument PHP functions.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker can invoke arbitrary zero-argument PHP functions on the server and, via WordPress core edit_user(), create a persistent subscriber-level account, potentially leading to further privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade the Tutor LMS plugin to a version newer than 4.0.5 that contains the fix for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS