# Academy LMS <= 4.0.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Course Review Submission

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-0798
- **Plugin:** Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning (`academy`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/academy/
- **Affected versions:** from 3.3.10 before 4.0.4
- **Fixed in:** 4.0.4 (Update to 4.0.4 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions None seen (as of 2026-10-12)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/academy
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-08
- **Published:** 2026-10-12
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0798/

## Description

The Academy LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data via the 'academy/add_course_review' AJAX action in versions 3.3.10 up to, and including, 4.0.3. This is due to the action not checking that the target post is a course with reviews enabled, that the user is enrolled in and has completed the course, or that the rating is between 1 and 5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to post auto-approved reviews with out-of-range rating values on any course without having enrolled in it, and so manipulate the course's displayed rating.

Also published later by wordfence as CVE-2026-104915.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0798/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/academy/tags/4.0.4/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/academy/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0798/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.