cve-2024-12172
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-12 05:24
Modified
2024-12-12 14:50
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | |
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▼ | hookandhook | WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses |
Version: * ≤ 3.2.21 |
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