CVE-2026-8502
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk28th percentile - higher than 28% of all known CVEs
Summary
The LearnPress plugin for WordPress up to version 4.3.6 exposes sensitive data via the 'return_type' parameter. An unauthenticated attacker can extract passwords for protected courses and content, author, and name of unpublished posts.
Risk Assessment
Risk of leaking sensitive course data and unpublished content, potentially compromising user privacy and platform integrity.
Recommendation
Update the LearnPress plugin to the latest version. If no update is available, temporarily restrict access to the /wp-json/lp/v1/courses/archive-course endpoint.
Other vulnerabilities in LearnPress
See all- CVE-2026-115599High
The LearnPress plugin by ThimPress contains a Missing Authorization vulnerability that allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. The issue affects versions from n/a through 4.4.11.
- CVE-2026-113353Medium
LearnPress before 4.4.10 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the admin_course_editor, admin_quiz_editor and admin_question_editor lp-ajax actions, allowing instructors to modify other instructors' content. Authenticated instructors can reuse their own generic editor nonce with another object's id parameter to alter courses, change quiz answers, and trash questions.
- CVE-2026-104736Critical
The LearnPress plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 4.4.10 is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection via deserialization of untrusted input from the 'checkout-email' request parameter during the checkout AJAX action. The value passes through sanitize_text_field(), which does not strip serialized object syntax, is stored in the LearnPress session table, and later fed to unserialize() without an allowed_classes restriction.
- CVE-2026-42690Medium
The LearnPress WordPress plugin in versions up to 4.4.10 contains a Broken Access Control vulnerability accessible to subscriber-level users. It allows performing actions beyond the granted permissions.
- CVE-2026-115598Medium
The LearnPress plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 4.4.11 has a missing authorization vulnerability, allowing exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels. The flaw enables unauthorized access to functions that should be protected.
- CVE-2026-115597Medium
The LearnPress plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 4.4.11 has a missing authorization vulnerability, allowing exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels. The flaw enables unauthorized access to functions that should be protected.
- CVE-2026-110363Medium
The LearnPress plugin up to version 4.4.10 has a missing authorization vulnerability that allows exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels. An unauthorized user may perform actions requiring higher privileges.
- CVE-2026-109208High
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 4.4.10 is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'quantity (REST) / order_comments (checkout)' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. With guest checkout enabled the attack is fully unauthenticated; with guest checkout disabled, any Subscriber-level user can exploit both vectors.
- CVE-2026-104670High
LearnPress plugin in versions up to and including 4.4.9 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by an unauthenticated attacker.
- CVE-2026-105397Medium
The LearnPress plugin for WordPress through 4.4.9.1 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated instructors to inject scripts via quiz question hint and explanation fields. Attackers with the Instructor role can submit unsanitized payloads through the update_question AJAX handler that execute in the session of every student taking the quiz.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

