CVE-2020-7916

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.1%

Medium (6.5) in thimpress learnpress. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

be_teacher in class-lp-admin-ajax.php in the LearnPress plugin 3.2.6.5 and earlier for WordPress allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress_be_teacher URI without any additional permission checks. Therefore, any user can change its role to an instructor/teacher and gain access to otherwise restricted data.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2020-03-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

thimpress:learnpress

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/#developers
https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/#developers

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