Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More: A security weakness
Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 1.8.9.7.
- Component
- Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
- Plugin slug
charitable-donation- Affected
- <= 1.8.9.7
- Safe version
> 1.8.9.7- Published
- Apr 07, 2026
This CVE was published Apr 07, 2026 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More to a release after 1.8.9.7, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in versions up to, and including, 1.8.9.7. This is due to missing cryptographic verification of incoming Stripe webhook events. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to forge payment_intent.succeeded webhook payloads and mark pending donations as completed without a real payment.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N