What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-13599: LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7.5 - Authenticated (LP Instructor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Lesson Name

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of a lesson name. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with LP Instructor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses: before 4.2.7.5.1 — fixed in 4.2.7.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses 4.2.7.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3226650/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/67709117-8912-4c09-afcb-0c07345d00e0?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2024-13599 or the next vulnerability affects your stack