Tutor LMS <= 3.9.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Course Content Modification

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• themeum Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution

  • up to and including 3.9.7affected · semver

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-78175Tutor LMS <= 4.0.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution
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• CVE-2026-1375Tutor LMS <= 3.9.5 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Instructor+) Arbitrary Course Modification and Deletion
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• CVE-2026-3360Tutor LMS <= 3.9.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Billing Profile Overwrite via 'order_id' Parameter
  30Monitor
• CVE-2025-13673Tutor LMS <= 3.9.6 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via coupon_code
  30Monitor
• CVE-2026-89333Tutor LMS <= 4.0.8 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure via 'student_id' Parameter
  26Monitor
• CVE-2026-16759Tutor LMS <= 4.0.5 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via 'template' and 'data' POST Parameters
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

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