LearnPress <= 4.3.9.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'layout_custom_css'
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'layout_custom_css' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-12230
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mj3q-62f3-7686
References
Other 4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f662888-c388-4191-bda9-b8a22d63cb3f?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.4/inc/ExternalPlugin/Elementor/Widgets/Instructor/ListInstructorsElementor.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.4/inc/ExternalPlugin/Elementor/Widgets/Instructor/ListInstructorsElementor.php#L45
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.4.0/inc/ExternalPlugin/Elementor/Widgets/Instructor/ListInstructorsElementor.php
More ThimPress vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-07900 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'c_only_fields' CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2023-06018 LearnPress <= 4.2.5.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via order_by CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-05199 WP Hotel Booking < 2.0.8 - Unauthenticated SQLi CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-04124 LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin <= 4.2.6.5 - Unauthenticated Time-Based SQL Injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-18355 WordPress LearnPress plugin <= 4.2.3 - Authenticated Broken Access Control vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2022-03105 LearnPress < 4.1.7.2 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection via REST API CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-12230 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-12230 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-mj3q-62f3-7686 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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