CVE-2024-3942 MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education <= 3.3.8 - Missing Authorization
Authenticated subscribers can read and modify course content due to missing capability checks in the MasterStudy LMS plugin.
- 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-2024-3942?
CVE-2024-3942 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in stylemix MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education, published on 2 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access, modification, and loss of data due to a missing capability check on several functions in versions up to, and including, 3.3.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level permissions and above, to read and modify content such as course questions, post titles, and taxonomies.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3942?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Stylemixthemes Masterstudy Lms.
How do I fix CVE-2024-3942?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3942 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-2024-3942 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3942 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in stylemix MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education
- CVE-2024-3136 MasterStudy LMS <= 3.3.3 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion via template
- CVE-2024-2409 MasterStudy LMS <= 3.3.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via stm_lms_register AJAX Action
- CVE-2024-2411 MasterStudy LMS <= 3.3.0 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion via modal
- CVE-2024-1512 MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education <= 3.2.5 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- CVE-2022-0441 MasterStudy LMS < 2.7.6 - Unauthenticated Admin Account Creation
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f9xx-q64p-q4f5.