CVE-2024-12172
HIGHWP Courses LMS <3.2.21 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
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)
References (2)
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