FKIE_CVE-2024-9637

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-26 09:15 - Updated: 2025-07-10 18:19
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The School Management System – WPSchoolPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.10. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with teacher-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpschoolpress/tags/2.2.9/lib/wpsp-ajaxworks-teacher.php#L598Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/411693fc-9df3-44b1-9a6f-58a6e8ef23b8?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
igexsolutions wpschoolpress *
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  "lastModified": "2025-07-10T18:19:01.503",
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