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WordPress Plugin: wpschoolpress: CVE-2024-9637: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 25, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

The School Management System – WPSchoolPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.10. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with teacher-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

Solution

wpschoolpress-plugin-cve-2024-9637
Title
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