CVE-2024-4444

LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Unauthenticated Bypass to User Registration

2024-05-09 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 4.2.6.6
Affected Plugin: LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
Affected Version: <= 4.2.6.5
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-420 · Unprotected Alternate Channel
CVE: CVE-2024-4444

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At a glance

CVE-2024-4444 is a medium-severity Unprotected Alternate Channel vulnerability in the LearnPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.2.6.5. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.2.6.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2024, reported by 1337_Wannabe.

Vulnerability Overview

The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to bypass to user registration in versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.5. This is due to missing checks in the 'create_account' function in the checkout. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as the default role on the site, even if registration is disabled.

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-420: Unprotected Alternate Channel

The product protects a primary channel, but it does not use the same level of protection for an alternate channel.

Remediation

Update to version 4.2.6.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: LearnPress 4.2.6.6 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-2024-4444 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c9e1410f-10c9-4654-8b61-cfcdde696da7 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4444

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Same weakness class

5.3CVE-2024-6099: LearnPress – WordPress LMS Bypass to User RegistrationCVE-2024-6099

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CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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