School Management System – SakolaWP <= 1.0.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-12470
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published January 6, 2025
Last Updated January 7, 2025
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran
Description

The School Management System – SakolaWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to the registration function not properly limiting what roles a user can register as. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrative user.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sakolawp-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.8
Patched Version
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