CVE-2020-7916 Privilege escalation in n/a
Any registered user can escalate privileges to teacher role in LearnPress plugin, gaining access to restricted instructor data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-7916?
CVE-2020-7916 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Mar 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-7916?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Thimpress Learnpress.
How do I fix CVE-2020-7916?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-7916 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-7916 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-7916 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2024-8522 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'c_only_fields'
- CVE-2024-8529 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'c_fields'
- CVE-2022-45808 WordPress LearnPress Plugin <= 4.1.7.3.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection
- CVE-2024-4434 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Unauthenticated Time-Based SQL Injection
- CVE-2023-6567 LearnPress <= 4.2.5.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via order_by
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7pv8-f952-86hp.