Privilege Escalation in Donation Forms by Charitable Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-4404

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Donation Forms By Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 August 2023

What is CVE-2023-4404?

The Donation Forms by Charitable plugin for WordPress permits unauthenticated attackers to escalate privileges by manipulating the 'role' parameter during user registration. This flaw stems from inadequate restrictions in the 'update_core_user' function, allowing attackers to dictate their user role without proper authentication, thus posing serious security risks for affected sites.

Affected Version(s)

Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress * <= 1.7.0.12

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tag...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lana Codes
.