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CVE-2025-1667: School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.16 - Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

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.

Affected products

• jdsofttech School Management System – WPSchoolPress: through 2.2.16

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpschoolpress/tags/2.2.16/lib/wpsp-ajaxworks-teacher.php#L544
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpschoolpress/tags/2.2.17/lib/wpsp-ajaxworks-teacher.php#L544
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e54f98bc-c538-4f3c-b24a-6e778a3748ef?source=cve

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