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CVE-2024-12609: school management system vulnerability
CVE-2024-12609: medium vulnerability affecting school management system. Check CVSS, KEV status, business impact and recommended administrator actions.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 28.43%
- Known exploited
- not in KEV
- Product
- school management system
What is known
The School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'view-attendance' page in all versions up to, and including, 92.0.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query in the mj_smgt_view_student_attendance() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Student-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Business impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-12609, a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) affecting school management system, may affect the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the vulnerable environment. The exact impact depends on the installed version, exposed interfaces and deployment configuration.
Recommended administrator action
Confirm whether school management system is present and compare installed versions with the vendor advisory and NVD record. Apply the vendor patch or documented mitigation; until remediation is complete, reduce exposure of affected interfaces, review relevant logs and monitor for indicators of exploitation. DataHouse can support version verification, managed patching, network exposure reduction, log review and backup validation for dedicated, cloud and colocated environments.