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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-33706 EUVD-2026-21559

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

Published Apr 10, 2026 · Updated Apr 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
chamilo chamilo-lms < 1.11.38 —

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