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CVE-2024-12470

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

CVSS Score

9.8 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

School Management System - SakolaWP plugin for WordPress

  • up to 1.0.8

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.

Weaknesses

CWE-266
Incorrect Privilege Assignment

A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

CWE ID: 266

Date

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

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

Status : Received

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

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
9.8
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
Base Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS Vector String

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View Vector String

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

References

https://wordpress.org/ security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/ security@wordfence.com