CVE-2023-6634
Published: 11 January 2024
Summary
CVE-2023-6634 is a high-severity Argument Injection (CWE-88) vulnerability in Thimpress Learnpress. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 0.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The LearnPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to command injection in all versions up to and including 4.2.5.7 via the get_content function. The root cause is unsafe use of PHP's call_user_func with attacker-controlled input, which maps to CWE-88 and CWE-77 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.1.
Unauthenticated remote attackers can invoke any public function that accepts a single parameter, enabling them to achieve arbitrary code execution on the WordPress site without requiring authentication or user interaction.
Public references from Wordfence and the WordPress plugin Trac show that the issue was fixed in changeset 3013957, which should be applied to bring installations to a patched release. The associated EPSS score remains elevated near 0.91 with no documented low-to-high trajectory after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-58857
Vulnerability details
The LearnPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Command Injection in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.5.7 via the get_content function. This is due to the plugin making use of the call_user_func function with user input. This makes it…
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possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute any public function with one parameter, which could result in remote code execution.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.