CVE-2025-1667 Information

Description

The School Management System – WPSchoolPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the wpsp_UpdateTeacher() function in all versions up to and including 2.2.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with teacher-level access and above to update arbitrary user details including email which makes it possible to request a password reset and access arbitrary user accounts including administrators.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpschoolpress/tags/2.2.16/lib/wpsp-ajaxworks-teacher.php#L544 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e54f98bc-c538-4f3c-b24a-6e778a3748ef?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