CVE-2026-53635CWE-862broken-access-control

CVE-2026-53635

High · published September 2, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Open edX Platform enables the authoring and delivery of online learning at any scale. Prior to commit 59bb6d6, the view function set_course_mode_price() at lms/djangoapps/instructor/views/instructor_dashboard.py:430 is decorated only with @login_required and performs no course-level permission check. Any authenticated user — including a learner account with zero course roles — can issue a single POST request to overwrite the honor mode price and currency of any course on the platform. The companion frontend modal was removed in a prior cleanup, but the URL route and view remain live, making this an unguarded orphan endpoint. This issue has been patched via commit 59bb6d6.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.6 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00397 · 32.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-09-02T21:17Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 SEP 03:42Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 02 SEP 16:53Z
    Open edX Platform: Insufficient Permission on set_course_mode_price()
    cvelistv5