CVE-2024-4434: The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘term_id’ parameter in versions up to, and…

PriorityP186critical9.8CVSS 3.1

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ITWEXPLOITVulnCheck KEV

Exploited in the wild

EPSS

36.93%

98.3th percentile

The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘term_id’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.5 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
thimpress	learnpress	< 4.2.6.6	4.2.6.6
thimpress	learnpress_wordpress_lms_plugin_for_create_and_sell_online_courses	<= 4.2.6.5	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

regex"nonce":"([a-z0-9]+)","is_course_archive"

→Exploitation can be detected by monitoring for HTTP 200 responses with Content-Type 'application/json' containing both 'No courses were found' and 'success' in the body, which is the expected server response during exploitation probing.
→A nonce value is extracted from the response body matching the pattern '"nonce":"([a-z0-9]+)","is_course_archive"' and used internally in multi-step exploitation, indicating automated exploitation tooling.

·The vulnerability is exploitable by unauthenticated attackers, meaning no authentication bypass is required — any anonymous HTTP request can trigger the SQL injection via the 'term_id' parameter. ↗
·The exploit probe checks for LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin version context and uses a two-step request flow (nonce extraction then injection), so single-request detections may miss the full attack chain.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

vulncheck9.8CRITICAL

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