# CVE-2025-13956: LearnPress - Missing Authorization

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Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-13956

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 5.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** ThimPress LearnPress
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function)
- **Tags:** wordpress

## Description

The LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the statistic function in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view the plugin's orders statistics, including total revenue summaries and order status counts.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-13956](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-13956) is a medium-severity broken access control vulnerability in the LearnPress WordPress LMS plugin (versions up to 4.3.1). Due to a missing capability check on the statistics endpoint, unauthenticated attackers can retrieve order statistics including total revenue, completed orders, and pending order counts, leading to sensitive business data exposure.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 1st of March 2025.

According to CrowdSec data, while opportunistic exploitation dominates, a portion of threat actors trying to exploit CVE-2025-13956 apply basic targeting methods such as port or service detection. This indicates emerging patterns of selective targeting.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2025-13956 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-13956 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Attackers exploit the `/wp-json/lp/v1/orders/statistic` REST API endpoint by sending unauthenticated GET requests to retrieve order statistics and revenue data.

## Timeline

- 2025-03-01: CVE Published. CVE-2025-13956 is published to NVD.
- 2025-03-01: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-13956 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-04-02: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-13956 for the first time.

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b4c0e309-45d1-4b00-875d-ec8a76910253/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13956
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-13956.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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