Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for
- Plugin slug
charitable- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 24, 2024
This CVE was published Sep 24, 2024 and is one of 15 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
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 Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.1.14. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity when the ID parameter is supplied through the update_core_user() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the email address and password of arbitrary user accounts, including administrators, which can then be used to log in to those user accounts.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H