Academy LMS <= 3.8.2 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Lesson Content Disclosure
CVE-2026-16563Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.8.2Update to 3.8.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning academy
- Affected≤ 3.8.2
- Patched in3.8.3
Update to 3.8.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.8.2. Version 3.8.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.8.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Pedro Pinho.
The Academy LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in versions up to, and including, 3.8.2. This is due to missing enrollment and course-access validation in the lessons REST API get_item() function, which set author_id to null for any user with the academy_student role, allowing unrestricted lesson content retrieval. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read arbitrary lesson content, including content from courses they are not enrolled in, by enumerating lesson IDs via the lessons REST endpoint.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary HTML File Read via 'id' Parameter in /wp/v2/templates REST Route ≤4.0.1Update to 4.0.2 | CVE-2026-120544 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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