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The School Management Pro <= 9.9.6 — Remote Code Execution

CVE-2022-1609Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤9.9.6Update to 9.9.7 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-912 Hidden Functionality
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

The School Management Pro school-management-pro

  1. Affected≤ 9.9.6
  2. Patched in9.9.7

Update to 9.9.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 9.9.6. Version 9.9.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under The School Management Pro.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 9.9.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch The School Management Pro to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The plugin School Management Pro in version 8.9 contains code that allows an attacker to remotely execute code.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in The School Management Pro

All 2
More vulnerabilities in The School Management Pro
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Critical9.1Authenticated (School Admin+) SQL Injection
≤10.3.4No patch available
CVE-2024-33911

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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