# 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.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rh4p-q4f7-8gmr

## 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.

Weakness: CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality), CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9658?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9659/): School Management <= 91.5.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-9660](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9660/): School Management <= 91.5.0 - Authenticated (Student+) Arbitrary File Upload (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2017-14843](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-14843/): SQL injection in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-12607](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12607/): SQL injection in School Management System for Wordpress (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-12609](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12609/): School Management System for Wordpress <= 92.0.0 - Authenticated (Student+) SQL Injection via 'view-attendance' (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9658 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9658 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: dasinfomedia School Management System for Wordpress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9658/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9658/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9658
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9658
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9658

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9658/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.