CVE-2026-8502
mediumpriority · track · 0OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.006 · 48 %ileEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-24
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.6 via the 'return_type' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including the plaintext post_password of password-protected courses and the full post_content, post_author, and post_name of unpublished draft, private, and pending courses via the unrestricted SELECT * fallback query. Exploitation requires supplying both c_status=all (to bypass the publish-only post_status WHERE clause) and return_type=json (to prevent the safe DISTINCT(ID) AS ID field override) in a single unauthenticated request to the /wp-json/lp/v1/courses/archive-course endpoint.
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affected products (1)
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references (44)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-8502cnnvd
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Databases/class-lp-course-db.php#L472cnnvd
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Databases/class-lp-db.php#L610cnnvd
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Models/Courses.php#L126cnnvd
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Models/Courses.php#L200cnnvd
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.php#L196cnnvd
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.php#L68cnnvd
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Databases/class-lp-course-db.php#L472cnnvd
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