CVE-2024-12172: Hookandhook Wp Courses Lms – Online Courses Builder, Elearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpc_update_user_meta_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.21. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary user's metadata which can be levereged to block an administrator from accessing their site when wp_capabilities is set to 0.

Affected products

• Hookandhook Wp Courses Lms – Online Courses Builder, Elearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses: up to and including 3.2.21

Published 2024-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.