School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.10 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Teacher+) Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation

8.8
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-9637
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published October 25, 2024
Last Updated October 30, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)

Description

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.

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Vulnerability Details for School Management System – WPSchoolPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpschoolpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.2.11, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.10
Patched Version
  • 2.2.11

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