CVE-2026-33706

Published Apr 10, 2026

Last updated 5 months ago

Overview

Description
Chamilo LMS is a learning management system. Prior to 1.11.38, any authenticated user with a REST API key can modify their own status field via the update_user_from_username endpoint. A student (status=5) can change their status to Teacher/CourseManager (status=1), gaining course creation and management privileges. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.11.38.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
chamilo_lms

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
4.2
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-269

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations