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School Management System – SakolaWP <= 1.0.8 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVE-2024-12470Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.0.8No patch available

What to do until a fix ships
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-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

School Management System – SakolaWP sakolawp-lite

  1. Affected≤ 1.0.8
  2. PatchedNo fix yet

No patched version available.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.8. No fixed version has been released.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under School Management System – SakolaWP.
  • 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. No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch School Management System – SakolaWP to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Thanh Nam Tran.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in School Management System – SakolaWP

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More vulnerabilities in School Management System – SakolaWP
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Exam Setting Manipulation
≤1.0.8No patch available
CVE-2024-13647

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.
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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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