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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/commit/0acf8a196307c66c049f97f5ff76cf21c4a08127 Patch
- https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/security/advisories/GHSA-3gqc-xr75-pcpw Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.1 · chamiloNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:chamilo:chamilo_lms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*