🛡️ CVE-2025-56747 — academy-lms

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-269 NVD
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Description

Creativeitem Academy LMS up to and including 5.13 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Api_instructor controller where regular authenticated users can access instructor-only functions without proper role validation, allowing unauthorized course creation and management.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-56747 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2025-56747 is recorded against 1 package.

  • academy-lms (fixed in 5.13)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 October 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

suryadina.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
academy-lms — 5.13

References

Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory https://suryadina.com/academy-lms-instructor-escalation-3n7b9f2w5k

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