Authentication bypass in Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.
Summary
The Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash plugin for WordPress is affected in versions up to and including 3.8.2. The uo_login_action() function checks the submitted email value inconsistently, so the account-verification check is skipped while the login still succeeds (CWE-287). An unauthenticated remote attacker who knows a target account's credentials can log in to unverified or administrator-suspended accounts and obtain a valid session cookie.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-02
Description from the CNA
The Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions up to, and including, 3.8.2 via the `email` parameter of the `uo_login_action()` function. This is due to a parser-differential flaw in which the plugin's account-verification gate resolves the submitted `email` value using the raw, unsanitized string passed to `get_user_by()`, while the subsequent `wp_signon()` call relies on WordPress core's internal `sanitize_user()` to strip appended junk characters — causing the gate lookup to fail and be skipped entirely while the real account is still resolved and authenticated. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in to unverified or administrator-suspended accounts whose credentials they already possess, obtaining a valid `wordpress_logged_in` session cookie and defeating the plugin's account-approval and account-suspension controls. The nonce required to reach the handler is freely obtainable in the same request from the unauthenticated `ult-refresh-nonce` endpoint, making exploitation trivial for any attacker with network access to the site and knowledge of a target account's credentials.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncanny Owl | Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash | up to 3.8.2 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash VendorUncanny Owl Affected up to 3.8.2 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-02
Timeline
- 2026-10-31 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-119096
- 2026-10-31 Alias added: GHSA-c7cc-xqvj-xcq2
- 2026-11-02 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/592b61a1-9ac9-4817-b154-1e39e50d8010?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/uncanny-learndash-toolkit/tags/3.8.2/src/classes/frontend-login-plus.php#L3559
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/uncanny-learndash-toolkit/tags/3.8.2/src/classes/frontend-login-plus.php#L3527
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/uncanny-learndash-toolkit/tags/3.8.2/src/classes/frontend-login-plus.php#L3446
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/uncanny-learndash-toolkit/tags/3.8.2/src/classes/frontend-login-plus.php#L3357
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3773997/uncanny-learndash-toolkit/trunk/src/classes/frontend-login-plus.php
More Uncanny Owl vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-16885 WordPress Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash plugin <= 3.6.4.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-40450 WordPress Uncanny Automator Pro plugin <= 7.3.0.6 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-85038 Privilege escalation in Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash WordPress plugin CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-03190 Uncanny Automator <= 6.4.0.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection in automator_api_decode_message Function CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2024-24647 WordPress Uncanny Automator Pro plugin < 5.3.0.1 - Unauthenticated License Settings Reset vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-30503 WordPress Uncanny Automator plugin <= 6.4.0.2 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-119096 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-119096 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-c7cc-xqvj-xcq2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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