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.
History

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:15:00 +0000

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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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

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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