Vulnerability in LearnPress – Course Review — CVE-2026-118054
What to do now
Update LearnPress – Course Review to 4.2.3 or later.
Affected versions
- Everything up to and including 4.2.2
Affected: LearnPress – Course Review (plugin, learnpress-course-review)
What the vulnerability is
The LearnPress – Course Review plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'review_title (inside `data.args.review_title`)' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The injected payload only executes after an administrator approves the submitted review, though sites with comment_previously_approved auto-approval configured may bypass manual moderation.
Sources
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress-course-review/tags/4.2.2/inc/TemplateHooks/CourseRatingTemplate.php#L397
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress-course-review/tags/4.2.2/inc/TemplateHooks/CourseRatingTemplate.php#L640
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress-course-review/tags/4.2.2/inc/functions.php#L208
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress-course-review/tags/4.2.2/inc/load.php#L569
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress-course-review/tags/4.2.3/inc/TemplateHooks/CourseRatingTemplate.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0f166e2e-6dd5-4453-8448-b7d7905dbf49?source=cve