CVE-2024-37234

Academy LMS <= 2.0.10 - Open Redirect

2024-06-21 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.0.11
Affected Plugin: Academy LMS
Affected Version: <= 2.0.10
CVSS: 8.3High
Weakness type: CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
CVE: CVE-2024-37234

At a glance

CVE-2024-37234 is a high-severity URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the Academy LMS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.10. It carries a CVSS score of 8.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.11; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2024, reported by Mochamad Sofyan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.10. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect url supplied. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into performing an action.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Reaching this weakness in Academy LMS <= 2.0.10 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. An open redirect is a page that takes a destination from the request and sends the browser there without checking that the destination belongs to the site.

A link that starts on a trusted domain finishes on an attacker's, which is what makes phishing and consent-screen abuse credible to the person clicking it. For Academy LMS the fix is 2.0.11: builds <= 2.0.10 are affected, anything from 2.0.11 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.0.11, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Academy LMS: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Academy LMS 2.0.11 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37234 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d2380af-2ba7-4f6b-a055-52f400042be4 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37234

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Academy LMS

CVSS Vector

8.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityLow

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