CVE-2025-11372 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.9.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Database Table Manipulation
Unauthenticated attackers can manipulate database tables and degrade site performance due to missing authorization checks in the LearnPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11372?
CVE-2025-11372 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses, published on 18 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to modification of data in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.9.2. This is due to missing capability checks on the Admin Tools REST endpoints which are registered with permission_callback set to __return_true. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform destructive database operations including dropping indexes on any table (including WordPress core tables like wp_options), creating duplicate configuration entries, and degrading site performance via the /wp-json/lp/v1/admin/tools/create-indexs endpoint granted they can provide table names.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11372?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11372?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11372 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-2025-11372 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11372 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mh5r-fjqf-7xv2.