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LearnPress <= 3.2.6.6 — Privilege Escalation

CVE-2020-7916Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.2.6.6Update to 3.2.6.8 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.1
CVSS
7.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses learnpress

  1. Affected≤ 3.2.6.6
  2. Patched in3.2.6.8

Update to 3.2.6.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.2.6.6. Version 3.2.6.8 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.2.6.8, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

be_teacher in class-lp-admin-ajax.php in the LearnPress plugin 3.2.6.5 and earlier for WordPress allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress_be_teacher URI without any additional permission checks. Therefore, any user can change its role to an instructor/teacher and gain access to otherwise restricted data.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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