Sensei LMS < 4.5.0 - Unauthenticated Private Messages Disclosure via Rest API

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• automattic sensei lmsbefore 4.5.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Unknown Sensei LMS

  • before 4.5.0affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2024-7786Sensei LMS < 4.24.2 - Unauthenticated Email Template Leak
  22Monitor
• CVE-2025-22740WordPress Sensei LMS plugin <= 4.24.4 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
  21Monitor
• CVE-2025-0466Sensei LMS < 4.24.4 - Unauthenticated sensei_email/sensei_message Disclosure
  21Monitor
• CVE-2024-35686WordPress Sensei LMS plugin <= 4.23.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
  21Monitor
• CVE-2023-50875WordPress Sensei LMS Plugin <= 4.17.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
  21Monitor
• CVE-2024-8009Sensei LMS < 4.20.0 - Teacher+ Users Email Address Disclosure
  17Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.