CVE-2024-12172

HIGH

WP Courses LMS <3.2.21 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC
by RandomRobbieBF · poc
https://github.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2024-12172

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.1124
EPSS Percentile 93.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE
CWE-862
Status draft

Timeline

Published Dec 12, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026