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CVE-2024-4279: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-4279. This security flaw affects versions up to and including 2.7.0, where an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability exists in the 'tutor_course_delete' function due to missing validation on a user-controlled key (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and requiring low privileges (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Instructor-level permissions and above to delete any course within the system, potentially leading to unauthorized course deletion and data loss (Wordfence).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires an authenticated user with Instructor-level permissions or higher to exploit. The attack complexity is considered low, requiring no user interaction to execute (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 2.7.1 or later which contains the security patch for this vulnerability (WordPress).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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