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CVE-2026-33706

Chamilo LMS has a REST API Self-Privilege Escalation (Student → Teacher)

Published: Apr 10, 2026Updated: Apr 16, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-269
7.1HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 93.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:LI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected Products

chamilo-lmschamilo
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / collaboration-groupware
chamilo lmschamilo
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
chamilooss-projectEnterprise Softwareaka chamilo-lms

Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/security/advisories/GHSA-3gqc-xr75-pcpw
github.com
https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/commit/0acf8a196307c66c049f97f5ff76cf21c4a08127
github.com

Timeline

Published
Apr 10, 2026
Last Updated
Apr 16, 2026

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