MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education <= 3.3.23 - Unauthenticated Limited Privilege Escalation to Instructor

7.3
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2024-5973
CVSS 7.3 (High)
Publicly Published July 1, 2024
Last Updated August 9, 2024
Researcher Jaime F. Murillo

Description

The MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to limited privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.23. This is due to insufficient role restrictions when registering through the stm_lms_register AJAX endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register on sites with Instructor level access.

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Vulnerability Details for MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug masterstudy-lms-learning-management-system (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.3.24, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.23
Patched Version
  • 3.3.24

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