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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-12172

Change History

New CVE Received from Wordfence 12/12/2024 1:15:23 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
The WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpc_update_user_meta_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.21. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary user's metadata which can be levereged to block an administrator from accessing their site when wp_capabilities is set to 0.
Added CVSS V3.1

								
							
							
						
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Added CWE

								
							
							
						
CWE-862
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3203679%40wp-courses&new=3203679%40wp-courses&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/760e999e-cac9-493f-9737-ad0cf055c880?source=cve