WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses: A security weakness
WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 12, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Dec 12, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N