CVE-2026-33706
Chamilo LMS has a REST API Self-Privilege Escalation (Student → Teacher)
Summary
Chamilo LMS has a REST API Self-Privilege Escalation (Student → Teacher)
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch github.com