CVE-2026-33706highCWE-269

CVE-2026-33706: high-severity vulnerability in chamilo-lms

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

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.2%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Affected products
chamilo · chamilo-lms
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