CVE-2026-8502

Medium

Description

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the plaintext post_password of password-protected courses and the full post_content, post_author, and post_name of unpublished draft, private, and pending courses via the unrestricted SELECT * fallback query.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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductLearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
PublishedJun 6, 2026
First seenJun 6, 2026

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Coursesv ≤ 4.3.6—

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