{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12596 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-12596 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes, published on 18 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12596 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-12596 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes, published on 18 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12596 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: chrisbadgett LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12596/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-12596","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12596/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-12596","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-jvgf-674p-mqxg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress LMS plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary posts due to missing capability checks in the LifterLMS WordPress plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"lifterlms","vendor":"lifterlms"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary post deletion due to a missing capability check on the 'llms_delete_cert' action in all versions up to, and including, 7.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Missing authorization in LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes","id":"CVE-2024-12596","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"HT Mega \u003c= 2.7.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via block_css and inner_css","id":"CVE-2024-12597"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"AHAthat Plugin \u003c= 1.6 - Reflected XSS via REQUEST_URI","id":"CVE-2024-12595"},"products":["LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes"],"published":"2024-12-18","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"File upload in LifterLMS Wordpress Plugin","id":"CVE-2020-6008","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-31"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-15896","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-09-10"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"WordPress LifterLMS plugin \u003c= 8.0.6 - SQL Injection Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-52717","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-06-27"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"LifterLMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for eLearning \u003c= 7.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via Shortcode","id":"CVE-2024-4743","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-06-05"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"LifterLMS \u003c 4.21.2 - Access Other Student Grades/Answers via IDOR","id":"CVE-2021-24562","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-08-23"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"LifterLMS \u003c= 7.7.5 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2024-7349","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-09-06"},{"cvss_score":6.1,"headline":"LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, \u0026 Quizzes \u003c 8.0.1 - Reflected XSS","id":"CVE-2024-13619","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-05-15"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["chrisbadgett"]},"summary":"Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary posts due to missing capability checks in the LifterLMS WordPress plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12596/"}