CVE-2024-12470 (GCVE-0-2024-12470)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 04:22 – Updated: 2025-01-07 16:18
VLAI?
Summary
The School Management System – SakolaWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to the registration function not properly limiting what roles a user can register as. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrative user.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
themesawesome School Management System – SakolaWP Affected: * , ≤ 1.0.8 (semver)
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Credits
Thanh Nam Tran
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