CVE-2024-9658 Information

Description

The School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to and including 93.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user’s identity prior to updating their details like email and password through the mj_smgt_update_user() and mj_smgt_add_admission() functions along with a local file inclusion vulnerability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with student-level access and above to change arbitrary user’s email addresses and passwords including administrators and leverage that to gain access to their account. This was escalated four months ago after no response to our initial outreach yet it still vulnerable.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://codecanyon.net/item/school-management-system-for-wordpress/11470032 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5fd7bca-7754-4f83-8e51-5278e6e8cc78?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8