CVE-2024-9637 Missing authorization in School Management System – WPSchoolPress
Authenticated teachers can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying arbitrary user email addresses to reset passwords.
- 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-2024-9637?
CVE-2024-9637 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in jdsofttech School Management System – WPSchoolPress, published on 26 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The School Management System – WPSchoolPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.10. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with teacher-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.
Weakness: CWE-639
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9637?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Igexsolutions Wpschoolpress.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9637?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9637 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-9637 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9637 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in jdsofttech School Management System – WPSchoolPress
- CVE-2025-1667 School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.16 - Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
- CVE-2023-4776 WPSchoolPress < 2.2.5 - Teacher+ SQLi
- CVE-2021-24575 WPSchoolPress < 2.1.10 - Multiple Authenticated SQL Injections
- CVE-2025-1669 School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.17 - Authenticated (Teacher+) SQL Injection
- CVE-2025-1670 School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.16 - Authenticated (Parent+) SQL Injection
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j2cp-fx26-qq5c.