SB2020091005 - Multiple vulnerabiities in LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.

2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: N/A)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in administrative pages. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10401/
• https://blog.sucuri.net/2020/09/reflected-xss-in-wordpress-plugin-admin-pages.html