themesawesome School Management System Plugin up to 1.0.8 on WordPress Setting save_exam_setting/delete_exam_setting cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in themesawesome School Management System Plugin up to 1.0.8 on WordPress. The impacted element is the function save_exam_setting/delete_exam_setting of the component Setting Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-13647. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in themesawesome School Management System Plugin up to 1.0.8 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is the function save_exam_setting/delete_exam_setting of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The School Management System – SakolaWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'save_exam_setting' and 'delete_exam_setting' actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update exam settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The weakness was disclosed by Dhabaleshwar Das. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-13647 since 01/23/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

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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• themesawesome

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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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