TeachpressWordPress extension · Mtrv
CVE-2023-52129
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Michael Winkler teachPress.This issue affects teachPress: from n/a through 9.0.4.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in teachPress plugin versions 9.0.4 and below allows attackers to induce authenticated users to perform unwanted state-changing actions (such as modifying teaching data or settings) by tricking their browsers into sending malicious requests.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
TeachpressWordPress extension
<= 9.0.4CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check installed teachPress versionNavigate to WordPress admin dashboard > Plugins > teachPress and note the version number, or inspect the plugin header in teachpress.php fileAffected if Version is 9.0.4 or lower (any version up to and including 9.0.4)
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Inspect state-changing forms for CSRF tokensView the source code of forms that modify teaching data or settings (e.g., course creation, enrollment, settings pages) and look for hidden nonce fields or CSRF tokens in the form HTMLAffected if Forms lack anti-CSRF token (nonce) fields in their HTML markup
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Verify form submission validationSubmit a POST request to a state-changing form endpoint (such as adding/editing courses or saving settings) without the expected token and observe whether the request is processed without rejectionAffected if Requests are processed successfully without valid CSRF token or proper origin validation
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Check Origin/Referer header handlingUse browser developer tools or a request intercepting tool to examine whether the server validates Origin or Referer headers on POST requests to teachPress endpointsAffected if Server accepts POST requests with missing or mismatched Origin/Referer headers from untrusted origins
You are affected if teachPress version 9.0.4 or lower is installed AND state-changing forms lack anti-CSRF token protection or server-side origin validation.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (synchronizer token pattern) on all state-changing forms and verify Origin/Referer headers on POST requests to ensure requests originate from legitimate sources.
Fix this in Teachpress
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-52129 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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