CVE-2026-33706

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-23 | Published 2026-04-10 | Updated 2026-04-14 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Product status

References

github.com/...lo-lms/security/advisories/GHSA-3gqc-xr75-pcpw

github.com/...ommit/0acf8a196307c66c049f97f5ff76cf21c4a08127

cve.org (CVE-2026-33706)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-33706)

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