CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2024-12172
High (7.5). EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 56% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-862
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced