# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Mar 2020
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7pv8-f952-86hp

## 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 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-7916?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8522/): LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'c_only_fields' (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-8529](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8529/): LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'c_fields' (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2022-45808](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-45808/): WordPress LearnPress Plugin <= 4.1.7.3.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2024-4434](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4434/): LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Unauthenticated Time-Based SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-6567](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6567/): LearnPress <= 4.2.5.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via order_by (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-7916 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-7916 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-7916/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-7916/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7916
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7916
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7916

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