CVE-2026-8502
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the plaintext post_password of password-protected courses and the full post_content, post_author, and post_name of unpublished draft, private, and pending courses via the unrestricted SELECT * fallback query.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.
Affected products
3<=4.3.6+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=4.3.6
- (no CPE)range: <=4.3.6
- Range: <=4.3.6
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
No source-code context for this CVE — mechanics is only generated when we can read the actual fix diff. Without that, the four sections (root cause, attack vector, affected code, fix) would be speculation rather than analysis.
References
14- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Databases/class-lp-course-db.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Databases/class-lp-db.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Models/Courses.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Models/Courses.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Databases/class-lp-course-db.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Databases/class-lp-db.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Models/Courses.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Models/Courses.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a32a6ea3-4473-4075-b660-9bba083ae0bfnvd
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