CVE-2024-8009 Sensei LMS < 4.20.0 - Teacher+ Users Email Address Disclosure
Medium 4.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8009 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2024-8009 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Sensei LMS, published on 15 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-8009 exists.
Affected product: Unknown Sensei LMS. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8009/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8009/index.md)
Teachers can view all user email addresses on the students page, exposing sensitive personal data.
- 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-2024-8009?
CVE-2024-8009 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Sensei LMS, published on 15 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Sensei LMS WordPress plugin before 4.20.0 disclose all users of the blog including their email address to teachers on the students page
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8009?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Automattic Sensei Lms.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8009?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8009 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8009 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-8009 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Sensei LMS
- CVE-2024-7786 Sensei LMS < 4.24.2 - Unauthenticated Email Template Leak
- CVE-2023-50875 WordPress Sensei LMS Plugin <= 4.17.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2025-0466 Sensei LMS < 4.24.4 - Unauthenticated sensei_email/sensei_message Disclosure
- CVE-2022-2034 Sensei LMS < 4.5.0 - Unauthenticated Private Messages Disclosure via Rest API
- CVE-2022-2080 Sensei LMS < 4.5.2 - Arbitrary Private Message Sending via IDOR
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v45r-44c3-w45r.