# CVE-2025-1667: School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.16 - Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

> Authenticated attackers with teacher access can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying user emails to trigger password resets.

- **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:** 15 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4mr4-q2q7-hmgc

## What is CVE-2025-1667?

CVE-2025-1667 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in jdsofttech School Management System – WPSchoolPress, published on 15 Mar 2025. 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 due to a missing capability check on the wpsp_UpdateTeacher() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with teacher-level access and above, to update arbitrary user details including email which makes it possible to request a password reset and access arbitrary user accounts, including administrators.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1667?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Igexsolutions Wpschoolpress.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1667?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1667 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1667 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1667 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in jdsofttech School Management System – WPSchoolPress

- [CVE-2024-9637](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9637/): Missing authorization in School Management System – WPSchoolPress (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-4776](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4776/): WPSchoolPress < 2.2.5 - Teacher+ SQLi (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-24575](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24575/): WPSchoolPress < 2.1.10 - Multiple Authenticated SQL Injections (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-1669](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1669/): School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.17 - Authenticated (Teacher+) SQL Injection (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2025-1670](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1670/): School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.16 - Authenticated (Parent+) SQL Injection (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1667 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1667 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in jdsofttech School Management System – WPSchoolPress, published on 15 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-2025-1667 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: jdsofttech School Management System – WPSchoolPress. 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-2025-1667/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1667/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1667
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1667
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1667

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1667/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.