CVE-2024-11868
Published: 10 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-11868 is a medium-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Thimpress Learnpress. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 5.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin is affected by a sensitive information exposure vulnerability in all versions through 4.2.7.3. The flaw resides in class-lp-rest-material-controller.php and stems from improper access controls (CWE-284), allowing unauthenticated network access to restricted data with low attack complexity.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the issue remotely to retrieve paid course materials that should be restricted to enrolled users, resulting in partial confidentiality impact without any requirement for credentials or user interaction.
A fix addressing the exposure was committed to the plugin repository, and Wordfence has published associated threat intelligence. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.1920 with a current value of 0.1594.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-33906
Vulnerability details
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.7.3 via class-lp-rest-material-controller.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract potentially sensitive paid course material.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.
Requiring prior authorization for each remote access type prevents improper access control over remote connections.
Requiring authorization of wireless access before allowing connections enforces proper access control for this access method.