CVE-2025-1667: School Management System – WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.16 - Missing Authorization to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-1667
CVSS Base Severity: HIGH
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Problem Types
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled KeyAffected Products
Vendor: jdsofttech
Product: School Management System – WPSchoolPress
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 5.32% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-04-13 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1667https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e54f98bc-c538-4f3c-b24a-6e778a3748ef?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpschoolpress/tags/2.2.16/lib/wpsp-ajaxworks-teacher.php#L544