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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| 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. | |
| Title | Chamilo LMS has a REST API Self-Privilege Escalation (Student → Teacher) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-269 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-10T18:51:23.824Z
Reserved: 2026-03-23T17:06:05.747Z
Link: CVE-2026-33706
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-10T19:16:23.800
Modified: 2026-04-10T19:16:23.800
Link: CVE-2026-33706
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