Masteriyo - LMS <= 1.7.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-24882
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published April 5, 2024
Last Updated April 11, 2024
Researcher Steven Julian
Description

The Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the update_logged_in_user() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug learning-management-system (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.2
Patched Version
  • 1.7.3
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