Vulnerability details

CVE-2024-12470

themesawesome School Management System – SakolaWP

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

CVSS 3.1
9.8Critical

Official description

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.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.8Critical 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Wordfence) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
themesawesome School Management System – SakolaWP v ≤ 1.0.8 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

2
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Details

Published
2025-01-07
Last updated
2026-04-08
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Wordfence

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.65%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
51.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-266
    Incorrect Privilege Assignment