CVE-2024-9637

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.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpschoolpress/tags/2.2.9/lib/wpsp-ajaxworks-teacher.php#L598	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/411693fc-9df3-44b1-9a6f-58a6e8ef23b8?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:igexsolutions:wpschoolpress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-10-26 09:15

Updated : 2025-07-10 18:19

NVD link : CVE-2024-9637

Mitre link : CVE-2024-9637

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-9637

JSON object : View

Products Affected

igexsolutions

wpschoolpress

CWE

CWE-639

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

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