CVE-2024-12470 (GCVE-0-2024-12470)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 04:22 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:27
VLAI
Title
School Management System – SakolaWP <= 1.0.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-07 15:57 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2304 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
themesawesome School Management System – SakolaWP Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0.8 (semver)
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Credits
Thanh Nam Tran
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