CVE-2020-11510

LearnPress <= 3.2.6.8 - Authenticated Page Creation and Status Modification

2020-04-19 00:00
Ram

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.2.6.9
Affected Plugin
LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
Affected Version
<= 3.2.6.8
CVSS
7.1High
Weakness type
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE
CVE-2020-11510
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At a glance

CVE-2020-11510 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the LearnPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.2.6.8. It carries a CVSS score of 7.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 3.2.6.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2020, reported by Ram.

Vulnerability Overview

Versions below 3.2.6.9 allow an attacker to publish or trash any existing post or page, or even set it to a nonexistent status, at which point it would no longer appear on the site or be accessible from wp-admin, and could only be recovered by modifying its status in the database.

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 interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on availability.

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Reaching this weakness in LearnPress <= 3.2.6.8 takes any authenticated account. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.

It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For LearnPress the fix is 3.2.6.9: builds <= 3.2.6.8 are affected, anything from 3.2.6.9 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.2.6.9, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: LearnPress 3.2.6.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11510https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6a639d27-8704-4841-b2b5-6afbf342a0ffhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11510

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