FKIE_CVE-2026-33706

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-10 19:16 - Updated: 2026-04-16 18:27
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Summary
Chamilo LMS is a learning management system. Prior to 1.11.38, any authenticated user with a REST API key can modify their own status field via the update_user_from_username endpoint. A student (status=5) can change their status to Teacher/CourseManager (status=1), gaining course creation and management privileges. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.11.38.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/commit/0acf8a196307c66c049f97f5ff76cf21c4a08127Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/security/advisories/GHSA-3gqc-xr75-pcpwVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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