School Management System Plugin up to 1.0.8 on WordPress privileges assignment

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in School Management System Plugin up to 1.0.8 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in Remote Code Execution. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-12470. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in School Management System Plugin up to 1.0.8 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote code execution vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-266. A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-12470 since 12/10/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. 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 01/07/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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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• Customer Relationship Management System

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• School Management System Plugin

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8

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