School Management SystemWordPress extension · Dasinfomedia
CVE-2024-12611
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe School Management System for Wordpress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 93.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe School Management System for WordPress plugin versions up to 93.0.0 contains a reflected XSS vulnerability in the 'title' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. Unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary JavaScript by tricking users into clicking malicious links.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
School Management SystemWordPress extension
<= 93.0.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check the installed plugin versionIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and locate 'School Management System' by Dasinfomedia. The version number is displayed under the plugin name. Alternatively, inspect the main plugin file header for the 'Version' tag.Affected if The displayed version is 93.0.0 or lower.
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Identify if the title parameter is accessibleThe vulnerability exists in the 'title' parameter. Determine if your site exposes any functionality (admin panel pages, frontend forms, or public endpoints) that accepts a 'title' parameter without authentication. Check plugin settings pages, student/school record forms, or any public-facing shortcodes.Affected if Any functionality on your site processes a 'title' parameter and is accessible to users.
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Verify lack of input sanitizationTest by submitting a benign XSS probe (such as a non-executable string like '<img src=x onerror=0>') to any field or parameter named 'title'. Inspect the page source to see if the input is rendered without encoding or if the characters appear literally.Affected if The submitted value appears in the page output without proper HTML encoding (characters display as entered rather than as escaped entities).
You are affected if the Dasinfomedia School Management System plugin version is 93.0.0 or lower AND your site exposes any functionality that accepts and displays a 'title' parameter to users without sanitization.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the plugin to a version beyond 93.0.0 when available. If no update exists, implement proper input sanitization (sanitize_text_field) and output escaping (esc_html/esc_attr) on the 'title' parameter.
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Scoped from the published advisory
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