CVE-2020-7916: Thimpress Learnpress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

be_teacher in class-lp-admin-ajax.php in the LearnPress plugin 3.2.6.5 and earlier for WordPress allows any registered user to assign itself the teacher role via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=learnpress_be_teacher URI without any additional permission checks. Therefore, any user can change its role to an instructor/teacher and gain access to otherwise restricted data.

Affected products

• Thimpress Learnpress: up to and including 3.2.6.5

Published 2020-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.