Vulnerability advisory

CVE-2026-5348

Research by Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan July 2, 2026
Overview

Summary

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.

Risk profile

CVSS assessment

5.3 · M E D I U M
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
N E T W O R K
Complexity
L O W
Privileges
N O N E
User interaction
N O N E
Scope
U N C H A N G E D
Confidentiality
L O W
Integrity
N O N E
Availability
N O N E
Classification

Weaknesses

  • Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE-639
Further reading

References

8 sources
  1. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/3.5.3/includes/api/course.php#L50
  2. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/3.5.3/includes/api/course.php#L77
  3. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/3.5.3/includes/traits/courses.php#L1514
  4. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/trunk/includes/api/course.php#L50
  5. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/trunk/includes/api/course.php#L77
  6. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/trunk/includes/traits/courses.php#L1514
  7. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3592849%40academy&new=3592849%40academy&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
  8. www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b84ae3e0-de4f-41d6-8944-fadaf6fdcf79?source=cve