# CVE-2024-8009: Sensei LMS < 4.20.0 - Teacher+ Users Email Address Disclosure

> Teachers can view all user email addresses on the students page, exposing sensitive personal data.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 May 2025
- **Updated:** 13 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v45r-44c3-w45r

## 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: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7786/): Sensei LMS < 4.24.2 - Unauthenticated Email Template Leak (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-50875](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50875/): WordPress Sensei LMS Plugin <= 4.17.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2025-0466](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0466/): Sensei LMS < 4.24.4 - Unauthenticated sensei_email/sensei_message Disclosure (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2022-2034](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2034/): Sensei LMS < 4.5.0 - Unauthenticated Private Messages Disclosure via Rest API (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2022-2080](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2080/): Sensei LMS < 4.5.2 - Arbitrary Private Message Sending via IDOR (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
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)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8009
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8009
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8009

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8009/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.