CVE-2022-1609 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The School Management WordPress plugin before 9.9.7 contains an obfuscated backdoor injected in it's license checking code that registers a REST API handler, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the site.

Published: 2024-01-16

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 64.3% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

school-management-pro

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 9.9.7

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:weblizar:school_management:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.64321.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e2d546c9-85b6-47a4-b951-781b9ae5d0f2/

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.9353}`	epss `{'score': 0.9294}`

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Weblizar School Management

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:52:21.658Z

Updated: 2025-06-02T15:10:34.673Z

Reserved: 2022-05-06T13:37:51.235Z

Link: CVE-2022-1609

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:10:03.591Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:09.530

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:22:46.913

Link: CVE-2022-1609

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-94
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

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