CVE-2024-12470 School Management System – SakolaWP <= 1.0.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Unauthenticated attackers can register as administrators due to improper role restriction in the registration function.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12470?
CVE-2024-12470 is a critical vulnerability in themesawesome School Management System – SakolaWP, published on 7 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12470?
How do I fix CVE-2024-12470?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12470 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-12470 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12470 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9g93-pxpv-276m.