HIGHCVE-2026-33706Published Modified CNA GitHub_M
CVE-2026-33706: Chamilo LMS has a REST API Self-Privilege Escalation (Student → Teacher)
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.1
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- —
- Affected Products
- 1
Affected packages
- chamilo / chamilo-lms< 1.11.38
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N