CVE-2024-4277 Cross-site scripting in LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the layout_html parameter, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.
- 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-2024-4277?
CVE-2024-4277 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses, published on 10 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘layout_html’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4277?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Thimpress Learnpress.
How do I fix CVE-2024-4277?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4277 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-4277 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4277 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
- 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-8jjw-j8rj-43xm.