{"id":12963,"date":"2023-01-25T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=12963"},"modified":"2023-01-25T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:30:27","slug":"multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-in-learnpress-wordpress-plugin-impacts-100k-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-in-learnpress-wordpress-plugin-impacts-100k-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in LearnPress WordPress Plugin Impacts 100k sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Multiple critical vulnerabilities in LearnPress WordPress plugin have been addressed after the developer released security updates. LearnPress is a WordPress learning management system (LMS) plugin used by over 100K active installs on the official <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/wordpress\">WordPress<\/a> repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/plugins\">plugin<\/a> is popular for creating and selling courses online. With LearnPress, users can create a course curriculum with lessons &amp; quizzes targeting ideal for schools with online teaching and course portals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerabilities were discovered by <a href=\"https:\/\/patchstack.com\/articles\/multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-fixed-in-learnpress-plugin-version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PatchStack<\/a> between November 30 and December 2, 2022. The vulnerabilities are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>CVE-2022-47615: An unauthenticated local file inclusion vulnerability could allow an attacker to display contents of local files stored on the web server, potentially exposing credentials, authorisation tokens, and API keys.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CVE-2022-45808: An unauthenticated <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/sql\">SQL<\/a> injection vulnerability could allow an attacker to insert malicious code, potentially leading to sensitive information disclosure, data modification, and arbitrary code execution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CVE-2022-45820: An authenticated SQL injection vulnerability could allow an attacker to insert malicious code, potentially leading to sensitive information disclosure, data modification, and arbitrary code execution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerabilities are now fixed and users and administrators of LearnPress are advised to upgrade to version 4.2.0 immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple critical vulnerabilities in LearnPress WordPress plugin have been addressed after the developer released security updates. 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