Vulnerability · Published Oct 5, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-11281Frappe LMS Unpublished Course courses access control
Medium 5.0
In plain English
A medium-severity improper access control in LMS from Frappe. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability has been found in Frappe LMS 2.35.0. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /courses/ of the component Unpublished Course Handler. Such manipulation leads to improper access controls. The attack may be launched remotely. This attack is characterized by high complexity. The exploitability is described as difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. You should upgrade the affected component. The vendor was informed early about a total of four security issues and confirmed that those have been fixed. However, the release notes on GitHub do not mention them.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-284, CWE-266 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
References
- VDB-327015 | Frappe LMS Unpublished Course courses access control vdb-entry
- VDB-327015 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #659695 | Frappe Frappe LMS 2.35.0 Improper Access Controls third-party-advisory
- https://gist.github.com/0xHamy/5ebd820ad30f33827011e9a614fb2f89 related
- https://gist.github.com/0xHamy/5ebd820ad30f33827011e9a614fb2f89#steps-to-reproduce exploit