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Creator LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Coaches, Cohorts & Course Creators <= 1.2.19 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Path Traversal

CVE-2026-97244Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.19Update to 1.2.20 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.3% chance in 30 days21th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Creator LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Coaches, Cohorts & Course Creators creatorlms

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.19
  2. Patched in1.2.20

Update to 1.2.20 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.19. Version 1.2.20 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Creator LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Coaches, Cohorts & Course Creators.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.20, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Creator LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Coaches, Cohorts & Course Creators to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to JunHee CHO.

The Creator LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Coaches, Cohorts & Course Creators plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.19. This is due to insufficient validation of a user supplied path. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to access files and directories outside of the intended directory.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Creator LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Coaches, Cohorts & Course Creators

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.8Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Upload
≤1.2.21Update to 1.2.22
CVE-2026-62129
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤1.2.21Update to 1.2.22
CVE-2026-62128
Medium6.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Free Paid Course Enrollment
≤1.2.19Update to 1.2.20
CVE-2026-62083
High8.8Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
≤1.1.18Update to 1.1.19
CVE-2026-32530
High8.8Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Options Update
≤1.1.12Update to 1.1.13
CVE-2025-15347

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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