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The Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user profile modification due to missing authorization checks on the /wp-json/masteriyo/v1/users/$id REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to modify the roles of arbitrary users. As a result, attackers can escalate their privileges to the Administrator and demote 

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

Wordfence CWE-862

Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learning-management-system/tags/1.13.3//includes/RestApi/Controllers/Version1/UsersController.php#L1726 [No types assigned]

Wordfence https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0c54166e-2af2-409d-8c67-9c07f2028543?source=cve [No types assigned]