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

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (2)

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

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.1124

EPSS Percentile 93.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-862

Status published

Products (1)

hookandhook/WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses < 3.2.21

Published Dec 12, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026