CVE-2024-12609 School Management System for Wordpress <= 92.0.0 - Authenticated (Student+) SQL Injection via 'view-attendance'
Authenticated students can exploit SQL injection in the School Management System plugin to extract sensitive database information.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12609?
CVE-2024-12609 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in dasinfomedia School Management System for Wordpress, published on 7 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'view-attendance' page in all versions up to, and including, 92.0.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query in the mj_smgt_view_student_attendance() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Student-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Weakness: CWE-89
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12609?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Dasinfomedia School Management System.
How do I fix CVE-2024-12609?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12609 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.
Is CVE-2024-12609 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12609 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in dasinfomedia School Management System for Wordpress
- CVE-2024-9659 School Management <= 91.5.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
- CVE-2024-9658 School Management System for Wordpress <= 93.0.0 - Authenticated (Student+) Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2024-9660 School Management <= 91.5.0 - Authenticated (Student+) Arbitrary File Upload
- CVE-2017-14843 SQL injection in n/a
- CVE-2024-12607 SQL injection in School Management System for Wordpress
Sources
Also known as GHSA-97fq-wpp2-xj9j.