CVE-2024-5483

LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.8 - Basic Information Disclosure via JSON API

2024-06-04 14:20

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 4.2.6.8.1
Affected Plugin: LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
Affected Version: <= 4.2.6.8
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-5483

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At a glance

CVE-2024-5483 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the LearnPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.2.6.8. 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 4.2.6.8.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2024, reported by shaman0x01.

Vulnerability Overview

The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.8 due to incorrect implementation of get_items_permissions_check function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract basic information about website users, including their emails

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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in LearnPress <= 4.2.6.8 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For LearnPress the fix is 4.2.6.8.1: builds <= 4.2.6.8 are affected, anything from 4.2.6.8.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.2.6.8.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: LearnPress 4.2.6.8.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5483 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/122b75d2-e882-45b9-baf1-acf847f8d60a https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5483

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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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