FKIE_CVE-2026-120544

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-11-03 05:18 - Updated: 2026-11-03 14:17
Severity
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
The Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1 via the 'id' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary .html files on the server. The plugin appends a '.html' extension to the attacker-supplied path before reading it, so files with any other extension — including wp-config.php — are out of reach. The file's contents are returned in full in the REST JSON response's content field.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L12
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L267
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L30
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L50
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3723396%40academy&new=3723396%40academy
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1f0a1439-d10c-4dfc-9a40-7319debe3c51?source=cve
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-11-03T14:17:35.153",
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