CVE-2025-11368 Missing authorization in LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
Unauthenticated attackers can access sensitive educational content and quiz answers via a REST API endpoint due to missing authorization checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11368?
CVE-2025-11368 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in thimpress LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses, published on 21 Nov 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.9.4. This is due to missing capability checks in the REST endpoint /wp-json/lp/v1/load_content_via_ajax which allows arbitrary callback execution of admin-only template methods. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve admin curriculum HTML, quiz questions with correct answers, course materials, and other sensitive educational content via the REST API endpoint granted they can supply valid numeric IDs.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11368?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11368?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11368 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-11368 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-11368 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-458g-4r9f-c8x2.