{"id":"CVE-2026-53635","title":"Open edX Platform enables the authoring and delivery of online learning at any scale","summary":"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 wit…","severity":"high","cvss":7.6,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L","cwe":["CWE-862"],"published":"2026-09-02","updated":"2026-09-09","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-09T21:04:42.813","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53635","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/commit/59bb6d669e4fdc24d96afb809e12119372d9e257","label":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/commit/f25bbc4d52bd827c8f04c73de427e2e16a144c73","label":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/commit/fd93ef5f9940f4ad6f50cf7faecad8d9cf2d3336","label":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rqq6-w4pv-7pjv","label":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rqq6-w4pv-7pjv","label":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00222,"epssPercentile":0.13105,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-09T21:22:45.563Z","slug":"CVE-2026-53635","body":"## Overview\n\nOpen 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":42,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":41.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}