CVE-2020-7916

published 2020-03-16

CVE-2020-7916: be_teacher in class-lp-admin-ajax.php in the LearnPress plugin 3.2.6.5 and earlier for WordPress allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role…

Priority P3 36 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1

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

be_teacher in class-lp-admin-ajax.php in the LearnPress plugin 3.2.6.5 and earlier for WordPress allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress_be_teacher URI without any additional permission checks. Therefore, any user can change its role to an instructor/teacher and gain access to otherwise restricted data.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
thimpress	learnpress	<= 3.2.6.5	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

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