Gibbon
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Schools with their own IT staff get a genuinely free, full-featured school platform . if they commit to fast security patching.
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Comparison
Gibbon vs Fedena
Gibbon and Fedena both land on Depends.
Fedena
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you're a school that wants an affordable all-in-one ERP with 50+ modules and a mobile app, and you can confirm the current version is patched.
| Compare | ||
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Schools with in-house IT | K-12 and higher-ed schools in price-sensitive markets |
| Who it's not for | Schools without a sysadmin . the CVE history demands fast patching | Tiny schools needing only attendance and grades . a 50-module ERP is overkill |
| Privacy | Rough record: multiple RCE, SQL injection, and file-inclusion CVEs between 2023 and 2026; patching discipline is mandatory.⁹ | Known CVEs exist against Fedena 2.3, including an authentication bypass; current cloud posture is unclear from public sources. |
| Support quality | Guess: community forum support, no vendor SLA | No independent support evidence found |
| Public sentiment | No substantive user reviews of the school platform surfaced; most 'Gibbon' search results concern unrelated products like slacklines and speakers.⁵ | Aggregator ratings are positive but samples are small, and praise centers on breadth and affordability. |
| Biggest gotcha | Self-hosted: you provision hosting, run upgrades, and must patch fast when RCEs land¹ | Fedena 2.3 had an auth-bypass CVE plus multiple unauthenticated vulnerabilities . verify your hosted version is patched before trusting student data |
Pick Gibbon when
- Schools with in-house IT
- Budget-constrained schools wanting a full SIS
- Open-source-friendly admin teams
When Gibbon is not a fit
- Schools without a sysadmin . the CVE history demands fast patching
- Tutoring or small teams needing just a gradebook
- Buyers who need vendor support and SLAs
- Anyone expecting polished hosted onboarding
Pick Fedena when
- K-12 and higher-ed schools in price-sensitive markets
- Schools wanting one ERP, not point tools
- Teams comfortable self-hosting open source
- Schools wanting parent-facing mobile apps
When Fedena is not a fit
- Tiny schools needing only attendance and grades . a 50-module ERP is overkill
- Districts with strict security/compliance bars . CVE history on v2.3
- Schools without admin staff to configure and run an ERP
- Buyers wanting transparent public pricing before a demo
Sources
- Gibbon . The Flexible School Platform (official)gibbonedu.orgofficial
- Gibbon Finance feature (official)gibbonedu.orgofficial
- Gibbon Security page (not found)gibbonedu.orgofficial
- Gibbon Support Forum . Security categoryask.gibbonedu.orgofficial
- Gibbon Reviews . G2g2.comreview
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- Gibbon Reviews . AWS Marketplaceaws.amazon.comreview
- Gibbon Software Pricing . Capterracapterra.comreview
- CVE-2026-8208 . Gibbon LMS RCE via LFIsentinelone.comsecurity
- CVE-2026-8207 . Gibbon SQL Injectioncvefeed.iosecurity
- CVE-2024-24724 . Gibbon RCEsentinelone.comsecurity
- CVE-2024-24725 . PHP Deserialization in Gibbon LMSblog.secondx.iosecurity
- CVE-2023-34598 . Gibbon v25.0.0 LFIgithub.comsecurity
- CVE-2023-45878 . GibbonEdu v25.0.00 (NVD)nvd.nist.govsecurity
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- Fedena Reviews . G2g2.comreview
