WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-10038 Deferred

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. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 1.8.11.1.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
Plugin slug
charitable
Affected
<= 1.8.11.1
Safe version
> 1.8.11.1
Published
Jun 06, 2026
Weakness
CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

This CVE was published Jun 06, 2026 and is one of 15 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More to a release after 1.8.11.1, 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.

Source record

Technical description

The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference / Authorization Bypass leading to Arbitrary Attachment Deletion in versions up to, and including, 1.8.11.1 via the profile avatar update flow. This is due to the save_avatar() function in Charitable_Profile_Form calling wp_delete_attachment() on an attachment ID read from the user's 'avatar' meta without validating that the attachment is owned by the user, combined with Charitable_Data_Processor::process_picture() returning the raw posted value when no file is uploaded, allowing the 'avatar' user meta to be poisoned with any attacker-chosen attachment ID. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments from the Media Library by performing a two-request chain (first poisoning the stored avatar meta value with a target attachment ID, then triggering deletion via a normal avatar upload).

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources