School Management System – SakolaWP: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
School Management System – SakolaWP is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- School Management System – SakolaWP
- Plugin slug
sakolawp-lite- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 07, 2025
This CVE was published Jan 07, 2025 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update School Management System – SakolaWP to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The School Management System – SakolaWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to the registration function not properly limiting what roles a user can register as. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as an administrative user.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H