School Management System Plugin up to 2.2.10 on WordPress resource injection

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in School Management System Plugin up to 2.2.10 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes resource injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-9637. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in School Management System Plugin up to 2.2.10 on WordPress and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-99. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not restrict or incorrectly restricts the input before it is used as an identifier for a resource that may be outside the intended sphere of control. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-9637 since 10/08/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/26/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• School Management System Plugin

Version

• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.2.4
• 2.2.5
• 2.2.6
• 2.2.7
• 2.2.8
• 2.2.9
• 2.2.10

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