CVE-2026-8502 PUBLISHED

LearnPress <= 4.3.6 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via 'c_status' and 'return_type' Parameters

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 06.06.2026 Updated: 06.06.2026

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the plaintext post_password of password-protected courses and the full post_content, post_author, and post_name of unpublished draft, private, and pending courses via the unrestricted SELECT * fallback query.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

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor thimpress
Product LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 4.3.6 (incl.)

Credits

  • Jamshed Yergashvoyev finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE