WordPress WP Courses 2.0.29 Information Disclosure / Authorization Bypass

WordPress WP Courses plugin versions 2.0.29 and below suffer from an issue that allows an unauthenticated attacker the ability to ex-filtrate all the content of courses through the WordPress REST API.


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WP Courses is a Wordpress plugin allowing to define courses with 
lessons. The course can be:

- accessible to everyone without authentication;
- only available for logged-in users;
- only available for logged-in and paying users.

In the latter case, only when a user is registered to WordPress and has
bought the product via a third plugin (for example WooCommerce) the
contents of the lessons are shown.

We have stumbled upon a severe information disclosure vulnerability on
WP Course <= 2.0.29 that gives an unauthenticated attacker the ability
to exfiltrate all the content of courses (for example videos links,
etc...) through the Wordpress REST API (/wp-json).

We have published more details and a root cause analysis in the
following link:
https://www.redtimmy.com/critical-information-disclosure-on-wp-courses-plugin-exposes-private-course-videos-and-materials/

A CVE has been requested but not assigned yet.


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