CVE-2024-12172 Information

Description

The WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder eLearning Courses Courses Solution Education Courses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpc_update_user_meta_option() function in all versions up to and including 3.2.21. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above to update arbitrary user’s metadata which can be levereged to block an administrator from accessing their site when wp_capabilities is set to 0.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3203679%40wp-courses&new=3203679%40wp-courses&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/760e999e-cac9-493f-9737-ad0cf055c880?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5