CVE-2026-120544 (GCVE-0-2026-120544)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-11-03 04:43
Modified
2026-11-03 13:22
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
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.
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