CVE-2024-4397 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Authenticated (Instructor+) Arbitrary File Upload

What is CVE-2024-4397?

CVE-2024-4397 is a high-severity vulnerability in thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses, published on 9 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 arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the 'save_post_materials' function in versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Instructor-level permissions and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Weakness: CWE-434

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4397?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Thimpress Learnpress.

How do I fix CVE-2024-4397?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4397 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-4397 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4397 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' Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-8529 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'c_fields' Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-45808 WordPress LearnPress Plugin <= 4.1.7.3.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-4434 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Unauthenticated Time-Based SQL Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-6567 LearnPress <= 4.2.5.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via order_by Critical 9.8

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-v42x-qjv5-q9c2.