CVE-2024-12611

School Management System for Wordpress <= 93.0.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2025-03-06 00:00
Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status
Unpatched
Affected Plugin
School Management System for Wordpress
Affected Version
<= 93.0.0
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-12611
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At a glance

CVE-2024-12611 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the School Management System for Wordpress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 93.0.0. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 93.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

School Management System for Wordpress <= 93.0.0 carries this weakness at title, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for School Management System for Wordpress yet, so installs running <= 93.0.0 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.

Remediation

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.

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12611https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45ada7a4-466b-4e73-8869-e1178e4fc67ahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12611

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