School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.16 — Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
CVE-2025-1667Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.2.16Update to 2.2.17 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
School Management System – WPSchoolPress wpschoolpress
- Affected≤ 2.2.16
- Patched in2.2.17
Update to 2.2.17 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.2.16. Version 2.2.17 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under School Management System – WPSchoolPress.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.2.17, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch School Management System – WPSchoolPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to wesley (wcraft).
The School Management System – WPSchoolPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the wpsp_UpdateTeacher() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with teacher-level access and above, to update arbitrary user details including email which makes it possible to request a password reset and access arbitrary user accounts, including administrators.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in School Management System – WPSchoolPress
All 14| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.2.36No patch available | CVE-2026-39631 | |
| Medium4.9 | Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection ≤2.2.23Update to 2.2.24 | CVE-2025-11981 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Arbitrary User Deletion ≤2.2.16Update to 2.2.17 | CVE-2025-1668 | |
| Medium6.5 | Authenticated (Parent+) SQL Injection ≤2.2.16Update to 2.2.17 | CVE-2025-1670 | |
| Medium6.5 | Authenticated (Teacher+) SQL Injection ≤2.2.17Update to 2.2.18 | CVE-2025-1669 |
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤2.2.36No patch available
- Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection
≤2.2.23Update to 2.2.24
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Arbitrary User Deletion
≤2.2.16Update to 2.2.17
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Parent+) SQL Injection
≤2.2.16Update to 2.2.17
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Teacher+) SQL Injection
≤2.2.17Update to 2.2.18
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
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
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.