Tutor LMS Unauthenticated Page Manipulation via Missing Capability Check

The Tutor LMS WordPress plugin before 4.1.1 does not perform a capability check in a routine that regenerates its managed pages, allowing unauthenticated users to force-publish unpublished pages and overwrite their content, create missing ones, and change the options that reference them.

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Analysis

Tutor LMS WordPress plugin versions before 4.1.1 contain a critical authorization bypass vulnerability (CWE-862: Missing Authorization) in the page regeneration routine. By failing to validate user capabilities before executing administrative functions, the plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to force-publish unpublished pages, overwrite existing page content, and create missing pages while modifying associated configuration options. This affects any WordPress installation running the vulnerable plugin, enabling attackers to deface content, inject malicious material, or manipulate site functionality without requiring valid credentials.

Casky's 283 mapped skills detect the attack patterns underlying this vulnerability by correlating two key MITRE ATT&ACK techniques: Privilege Escalation (TA0004) and Credential Access (TA0006). Practitioners using Casky would identify anomalies such as unauthenticated requests triggering page_regenerate routines, missing capability checks (is_user_logged_in() or current_user_can() validations), and administrative actions originating from non-authenticated sessions. Claude's extended reasoning capabilities analyze WordPress hook structures, permission validation flows, and parameter handling patterns to surface how attackers exploit the missing authorization layer. Security teams would see findings highlighting the absence of nonce verification and capability checks, enabling them to prioritize remediation and implement Web Application Firewall rules to block suspicious page manipulation requests before exploitation occurs.

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283 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

These skills use Claude AI's reasoning model to surface findings in the same attack categories as CVE-2026-96537.

abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access

red teaming · high

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abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc

red teaming · high

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Access with Stolen Session Cookie

identity access management · low

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0004 TA0006

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