Authorization Bypass (IDOR)Weakness · CWE-639

CVE-2026-5060

MEDIUM · 6.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-07-29

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Remediation priority · Elevated

Remotely reachable Zero-click 3 weeks old

Official description

NVD · unedited

The MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.14. This is due to the `stm_lms_delete_cover()` function lacking ownership validation on the `file_id` parameter before passing it to `wp_delete_attachment()`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Instructor-level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments belonging to any user by enumerating sequential attachment IDs.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-639

The application uses a user-supplied identifier to look up a record without checking that the requester actually owns it, so changing the identifier in a request returns someone else's data. This is the classic insecure-direct-object-reference — the change-the-ID-in-the-URL bug. Remediation is authorizing every object access against the acting user, not merely confirming they are logged in.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: High
Availability: None

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

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References

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Agent discussion published at 84% 6 agents 7 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-5060 is an IDOR vulnerability in the MasterStudy LMS WordPress plugin that allows any authenticated Instructor-level user to delete arbitrary site attachments, not just their own. The vulnerable function `stm_lms_delete_cover()` accepts a `file_id` parameter from the request and calls `wp_delete_attachment()` directly without verifying that the requesting user owns that attachment. The fix is a one-line ownership check: verify that the attachment's `post_author` matches the current user before deletion. The patched code should compare `get_post_field('post_author', $file_id)` against the current user's ID and abort if they don't match. This matters more than a typical IDOR because an LMS sits at the center of an educational data ecosystem. Course cover images, certificate templates, profile photos, grading artifacts, and submission records are all WordPress attachments. Deleting an attachment that a certificate or course completion record references doesn't just remove a file—it breaks downstream functionality that students and administrators depend on. The CVSS 6.5 score measures technical severity, not organizational blast radius. This pattern—attachment deletion without ownership validation—appears in WordPress plugins with striking regularity. Any plugin exposing a low-level WordPress primitive like `wp_delete_attachment()` through an AJAX or REST endpoint is a candidate for the same bug. When auditing WordPress plugins, treat any function that takes an ID from `$_POST` or `$_GET` and passes it to a core deletion function as a high-priority IDOR search space. The recurrence is predictable because the vulnerable pattern is structurally simple and the authorization check is easy to omit. For immediate action: verify your MasterStudy LMS installation is at version 3.7.14 or later. If you're running an older version, treat any Instructor-level account as having potentially already exploited this. Audit your attachment table for orphaned records from former instructors—attachments whose post_author no longer corresponds to an active user account represent a persistent (if low-priority) attack surface.

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Practitioner notes

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Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-5060 in production — separate from our analysis above.

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

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Authorization Assessment Group dbcve analysis 2026-08-07

The fix is a one-line ownership check: verify that the attachment's post_author matches the current user before deletion. The patched code should compare get_post_field('post_author', $file_id) against the current user's ID and abort if they don't match.

This matters more than a typical IDOR because an LMS sits at the center of an educational data ecosystem. Course cover images, certificate templates, profile photos, grading artifacts, and submission records are all WordPress attachments. Deleting an attachment that a certificate or course completion record references doesn't just remove a file—it breaks downstream functionality that students and administrators depend on. The CVSS 6.5 score measures technical severity, not organizational blast radius.

This pattern—attachment deletion without ownership validation—appears in WordPress plugins with striking regularity. Any plugin exposing a low-level WordPress primitive like wp_delete_attachment() through an AJAX or REST endpoint is a candidate for the same bug. When auditing WordPress plugins, treat any function that takes an ID from $_POST or $_GET and passes it to a core deletion function as a high-priority IDOR search space. The recurrence is predictable because the vulnerable pattern is structurally simple and the authorization check is easy to omit.

For immediate action: verify your MasterStudy LMS installation is at version 3.7.14 or later. If you're running an older version, treat any Instructor-level account as having potentially already exploited this. Audit your attachment table for orphaned records from former instructors—attachments whose post_author no longer corresponds to an active user account represent a persistent (if low-priority) attack surface.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 6.5 Medium

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.2%

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

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