PT-2020-19845 · Thimpress · Learnpress

Published 2020-03-16 · Updated 2020-03-20 · CVE-2020-7916

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LearnPress plugin versions 3.2.6.5 and earlier

Description The issue allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role via the "wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress be teacher" API endpoint without any additional permission checks. This enables any user to change its role to an instructor/teacher and gain access to otherwise restricted data.

Recommendations For LearnPress plugin versions 3.2.6.5 and earlier, consider disabling the be teacher function in class-lp-admin-ajax.php until a patch is available to prevent unauthorized role changes. Restrict access to the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress be teacher API endpoint to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-7916

Affected Products

Learnpress

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7916 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/1776 · Telegram Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/#developers · Note