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CVE-2024-2115· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Wordfence

LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.0.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation

The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the filter_users functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of a teacher via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Apr 5, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 18th percentile
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Action score

35

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · Wordfence
8.8
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Affected systems

VendorProduct
thimpresslearnpress

Affected versions

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

  • thimpress learnpressbefore 4.0.1

Versions reported by the vendor

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

  • thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses

    • up to and including 4.0.0affected · semver

Same product

thimpress: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2024-4434LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Unauthenticated Time-Based SQL Injection
    50Plan
  • CVE-2020-6010LearnPress Wordpress plugin version prior and including 3.2.6.7 is vulnerable to SQL Injection
    50Plan
  • CVE-2024-8522LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'c_only_fields'
    49Plan
  • CVE-2023-6567LearnPress <= 4.2.5.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via order_by
    45Plan
  • CVE-2023-6634LearnPress <= 4.2.5.7 - Command Injection
    42Plan
  • CVE-2022-47615WordPress LearnPress Plugin <= 4.1.7.3.2 is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion
    41Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

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

Patch and commit links

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Credits

All researchers

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2024-39641143 days apartWordPress LearnPress plugin <= 4.2.6.8.2 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability
    35Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-352 class

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

Vulnerable

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

Fixed

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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