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the plaintext post_password of password-protected courses and the full post_content, post_author, and post_name of unpublished draft, private, and pending courses via the unrestricted SELECT * fallback query.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.
CVE-2026-8502
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-06. a secondary CVSS source baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(medium)
- EG Risk
- 39(Track)EG Risk 39/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity53% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 42%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 6, 2026
Last Modified
July 23, 2026
References (14)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Databases/class-lp-course-db.php#L472
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Databases/class-lp-db.php#L610
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Models/Courses.php#L126
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/Models/Courses.php#L200
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.php#L196
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.2.8/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.php#L68
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Databases/class-lp-course-db.php#L472
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Databases/class-lp-db.php#L610
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Models/Courses.php#L126
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/Models/Courses.php#L200
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.php#L196
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/learnpress/tags/4.3.6/inc/rest-api/v1/frontend/class-lp-rest-courses-controller.php#L68
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3545523%40learnpress&new=3545523%40learnpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a32a6ea3-4473-4075-b660-9bba083ae0bf?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-8502(1)
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Weakness Classification(1)
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