CVE-2024-12470

Jan. 7, 2025, 5:15 a.m.

9.8
Critical

Description

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
School Management System - SakolaWP plugin for WordPress
  • up to 1.0.8

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-266
Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sakolawp-lite/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db1c581b-5cc9-46c0-ba5d-605642697729?source=cve

Tags

security@wordfence.com
CWE-266
2025-01-07
CVE-2024-12470

CVSS Score

9.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Jan. 7, 2025, 5:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Jan. 7, 2025, 5:15 a.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

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