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CVE-2024-12470: School Management System – SakolaWP <= 1.0.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-266

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.

Affected products

• themesawesome School Management System – SakolaWP: through 1.0.8

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/sakolawp-lite/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db1c581b-5cc9-46c0-ba5d-605642697729?source=cve

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