The School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 93.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email and password through the mj_smgt_update_user() and mj_smgt_add_admission() functions, along with a local file inclusion vulnerability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses and passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account. This was escalated four months ago after no response to our initial outreach, yet it still vulnerable.
History

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Dasinfomedia
Dasinfomedia school Management System
Weaknesses CWE-306
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:dasinfomedia:school_management_system:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Dasinfomedia
Dasinfomedia school Management System

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description The School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 93.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email and password through the mj_smgt_update_user() and mj_smgt_add_admission() functions, along with a local file inclusion vulnerability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses and passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account. This was escalated four months ago after no response to our initial outreach, yet it still vulnerable.
Title School Management System for Wordpress <= 93.0.0 - Authenticated (Student+) Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation
Weaknesses CWE-288
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-03-07T15:11:06.035Z

Reserved: 2024-10-08T20:07:34.693Z

Link: CVE-2024-9658

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-07T15:11:01.551Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-03-07T09:15:15.993

Modified: 2025-03-13T14:58:42.383

Link: CVE-2024-9658

cve-icon Redhat

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