Security advisory

{
  "id": "d6c166c99c6c5e626c48a2ac6962afabaf72c15141d713af2c030cb874fbf4e0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-15896",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-15896",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the LifterLMS plugin through 3.34.5 for WordPress. The upload_import function in the class.llms.admin.import.php script is prone to an unauthenticated options import vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation (administrator account creation), website redirection, and stored XSS.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-15896",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-15896",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-15896"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "6c496dc8f63c53b40f9c97cd1ba34713f2df994b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:lifterlms:lifterlms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.34.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.34.5",
            "3.20.0-beta.1",
            "3.0.0-beta.5",
            "3.0.0-beta.4",
            "3.0.0-beta.3",
            "3.0.0-beta.2",
            "3.0.0-beta.1",
            "1.4.0",
            "1.3.10",
            "1.3.9",
            "1.3.8",
            "1.3.7",
            "1.3.6",
            "1.3.5",
            "1.3.4",
            "v1.3.3",
            "1.3.2",
            "1.3.0",
            "1.2.6",
            "1.2.5",
            "1.2.4",
            "1.1.1",
            "1.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15896.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:28.223914639Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/#developers",
        "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9871",
        "https://blog.nintechnet.com/critical-vulnerability-fixed-in-wordpress-lifterlms-plugin/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-15896",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431996,
  "published_at": "2019-09-10T16:15:12.477+00:00"
}