School Management System for Wordpress <= 93.0.0 - Authenticated (Student+) Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2024-9658
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published March 6, 2025
Last Updated March 7, 2025
Researcher Tonn
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug school-management (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 93.0.0
Patched Version
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