CVE-2020-7916
Published Mar 16, 2020
Last updated 5 years ago
Overview
- Description
- be_teacher in class-lp-admin-ajax.php in the LearnPress plugin 3.2.6.5 and earlier for WordPress allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress_be_teacher URI without any additional permission checks. Therefore, any user can change its role to an instructor/teacher and gain access to otherwise restricted data.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-269
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:thimpress:learnpress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "69977512-84BC-4E6B-8843-DF734D48C217",
"versionEndIncluding": "3.2.6.5"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]