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CVE-2026-16563

The Academy LMS WordPress plugin before 3.8.3 does not verify course enrollment or lesson publication status when returning a single lesson through its REST API, allowing users with a self-service student (Subscriber-level) account to disclose the content of arbitrary lessons, including lessons of paid courses they are not enrolled in and unpublished (draft, pending, private) lessons.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:7c03be8176224c9fd6ed3d1b97247a63db7fe691a3f85f2ea9ce2a98bad89e7d
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-284","description":"CWE-284 Improper Access Control","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8432ca6218df70a2d991ab4cc5713a96f25932036e784e1cc5c7d676a1aba5d5 · sha256:aa8d2d41da0276e8… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"description":"CWE-284 Improper Access Control","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8432ca6218df70a2d991ab4cc5713a96f25932036e784e1cc5c7d676a1aba5d5 · sha256:aa8d2d41da0276e8… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Academy LMS","vendor":"Unknown","versions":[{"lessThan":"3.8.3","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8432ca6218df70a2d991ab4cc5713a96f25932036e784e1cc5c7d676a1aba5d5 · sha256:aa8d2d41da0276e8… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":6.5,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"LOW","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8432ca6218df70a2d991ab4cc5713a96f25932036e784e1cc5c7d676a1aba5d5 · sha256:aa8d2d41da0276e8… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-284","description":"CWE-284 Improper Access Control","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8432ca6218df70a2d991ab4cc5713a96f25932036e784e1cc5c7d676a1aba5d5 · sha256:aa8d2d41da0276e8… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"description":"CWE-284 Improper Access Control","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8432ca6218df70a2d991ab4cc5713a96f25932036e784e1cc5c7d676a1aba5d5 · sha256:aa8d2d41da0276e8… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

1 source assertion
{"tags":["exploit","vdb-entry","technical-description"],"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/eec480b0-67af-4642-b6b3-cba095394286/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8432ca6218df70a2d991ab4cc5713a96f25932036e784e1cc5c7d676a1aba5d5 · sha256:aa8d2d41da0276e8… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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