CVE-2026-13764 PUBLISHED

Masterstudy - Education WordPress Theme <= 4.8.151 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 29.06.2026 Published: 12.11.2026 Updated: 12.11.2026

The Masterstudy - Education WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.151. This is due to missing authorization and nonce validation on the masterstudy_ms_stm_set_discard_transient AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to Administrator by setting the stm_developer_access_token transient and using the developer access auto-login flow to obtain administrator session cookies.

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CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor StylemixThemes
Product Masterstudy - Education WordPress Theme
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 4.8.151 (incl.)

Credits

  • lhking finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE