CVE-2026-88849

MasterStudy LMS 3.7.13 - 3.7.54 - Instructor+ Arbitrary User Display Name Update via Student Enrollment

Unscored

The MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.7.55 does not verify that a user targeted through its student-enrolment feature has any relationship to the requesting instructor, allowing users with the Instructor role to overwrite the first name, last name and public display name of any registered user on the site, including administrators, enabling impersonation and phishing.

Assigner
WPScan
Published
2026-10-22
Updated
2026-10-22
Reserved
2026-09-10

Affected

VendorProductVersions
Unknown MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin 3.7.13 to < 3.7.55 (affected)
others: unaffected

References

Full CVE JSON record (5.2)

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