CVE-2020-7916

CVSS V2 Medium 4 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
be_teacher in class-lp-admin-ajax.php in the LearnPress plugin 3.2.6.5 and earlier for WordPress allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress_be_teacher URI without any additional permission checks. Therefore, any user can change its role to an instructor/teacher and gain access to otherwise restricted data.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-7916
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-03-16T18:15:13
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-03-20T17:06:07
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-269 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:thimpress:learnpress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 3.2.6.5
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/#developers Release Notes Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7916
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7916
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:46:39 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 12:56:38 2020-03-16T18:15Z 2020-03-16T18:15:13 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 12:56:38 2020-03-20T17:06:07 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 12:56:38 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated