CVE-2026-5348
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk18th percentile - higher than 18% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Academy LMS WordPress plugin up to version 3.8.1 is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) in the '/topics' REST API endpoint. Lack of permission checks allows unauthenticated attackers to access detailed course data, including private, draft, scheduled, or password-protected courses.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can read the full course structure (e.g., topics, lessons) without authorization, compromising the confidentiality of educational content and potentially leaking sensitive materials.
Recommendation
Immediately update the Academy LMS plugin to the latest available version that fixes this vulnerability. If an update is not possible, temporarily disable the '/topics' endpoint or restrict access using Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules.
Other vulnerabilities in Academy LMS
See all- CVE-2026-9341Medium
The Academy LMS plugin for WordPress up to version 3.8.0 is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) in the 'save_lesson_note', 'get_lesson_note', and 'complete_lesson_video' AJAX handlers due to missing validation on a user-controlled key. This allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to read, overwrite, or delete private lesson notes of any other user (including administrators) and falsify lesson-completion progress for arbitrary users.
- CVE-2026-12376Medium
The Academy LMS WordPress plugin through 3.8.2 does not restrict access to quiz attempt records to their owner, allowing any authenticated user with subscriber-level access and above (enrolled in any single course) to read every user's quiz attempts across the whole site, including personal data such as IP addresses, names, registration dates and quiz results.
- CVE-2023-4119Medium
A vulnerability has been found in Academy LMS 6.0 that leads to cross site scripting attacks. The issue affects unknown code in the file /academy/home/courses, and manipulation of the argument query/sort_by allows for remote attacks.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 3.8.1. This is due to the '/topics' REST API endpoint being registered with a permission callback set to '__return_true', allowing unauthenticated access to course curriculum data without verifying the course's post status or user enrollment. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access detailed curriculum information for private, draft, scheduled, or password-protected courses by enumerating course IDs.