School Management System for Wordpress <= 93.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion to Privilege Escalation via Password Update

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2025-3740
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 17, 2025
Last Updated July 18, 2025
Researcher Thái An
Description

The School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 93.1.0 via the 'page' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where images and other “safe” file types can be uploaded and included. The Local File Inclusion exploit can be chained to include various dashboard view files in the plugin. One such chain can be leveraged to update the password of Super Administrator accounts in Multisite environments making privilege escalation possible. The vendor has updated the version numbers beginning with `1.93.1 (02-07-2025)` for the patched version. This version comes after version 93.1.0.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug school-management (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 93.1.0
Patched Version
  • 1.93.1 (02-07-2025)
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