What is CVE-2024-12470?

CVE-2024-12470 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Themesawesome School Management System – Sakolawp, classified under Incorrect Privilege Assignment. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-01-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-12470?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-12470 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege escalation in Themesawesome School Management System – Sakolawp

CVE-2024-12470

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.

EPSS: 0.006 (46.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Themesawesome School Management System – Sakolawp — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-266 — Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12470?: CVE-2024-12470 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Themesawesome School Management System – Sakolawp, classified under Incorrect Privilege Assignment. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-01-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-12470?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12470 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.