CVE-2022-2080 Sensei LMS < 4.5.2 - Arbitrary Private Message Sending via IDOR

What is CVE-2022-2080?

CVE-2022-2080 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning, published on 29 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Sensei LMS WordPress plugin before 4.5.2 does not ensure that the sender of a private message is either the teacher or the original sender, allowing any authenticated user to send messages to arbitrary private conversation via a IDOR attack. Note: Attackers are not able to see responses/messages between the teacher and student

Weakness: CWE-639

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2080?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Automattic Sensei Lms.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2080?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2080 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2022-2080 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2080 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning

• CVE-2024-7786 Sensei LMS < 4.24.2 - Unauthenticated Email Template Leak High 7.5
• CVE-2023-50875 WordPress Sensei LMS Plugin <= 4.17.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-0466 Sensei LMS < 4.24.4 - Unauthenticated sensei_email/sensei_message Disclosure Medium 5.3
• CVE-2022-2034 Sensei LMS < 4.5.0 - Unauthenticated Private Messages Disclosure via Rest API Medium 5.3
• CVE-2024-8009 Sensei LMS < 4.20.0 - Teacher+ Users Email Address Disclosure Medium 4.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-35xw-38xf-5f44.