CVE-2024-9658 School Management System for Wordpress <= 93.0.0 - Authenticated (Student+) Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation
Authenticated students can escalate privileges and take over administrator accounts by bypassing identity validation during user updates.
- 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-2024-9658?
CVE-2024-9658 is a high-severity 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 privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 93.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email and password through the mj_smgt_update_user() and mj_smgt_add_admission() functions, along with a local file inclusion vulnerability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses and passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account. This was escalated four months ago after no response to our initial outreach, yet it still vulnerable.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9658?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Dasinfomedia School Management System.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9658?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9658 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-9658 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9658 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-2024-9660 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
- CVE-2024-12609 School Management System for Wordpress <= 92.0.0 - Authenticated (Student+) SQL Injection via 'view-attendance'
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rh4p-q4f7-8gmr.