CVE-2026-120544

Description

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

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L12
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L267
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L30
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/4.0.1/includes/frontend/template/block.php#L50
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3723396%40academy&new=3723396%40academy