CVE-2024-12470 (GCVE-0-2024-12470)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-07 04:22
Modified
2026-04-08 17:27
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| themesawesome | School Management System – SakolaWP |
Version: 0 ≤ 1.0.8 |
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Sightings
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