CVE-2024-12172

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

The WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpc_update_user_meta_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.21. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary user's metadata which can be levereged to block an administrator from accessing their site when wp_capabilities is set to 0.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-12172

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-12-12T05:24:21.551Z

Last Modified Date
2024-12-12T05:24:21.551Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-862	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/760e999e-cac9-493f-9737-ad0cf055c880?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3203679%40wp-courses&new=3203679%40wp-courses&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12172
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-12172

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-12-12 13:45:26				Added to TrackCVE