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GHSA-G3Q3-27W2-FGMP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-24 03:30 – Updated: 2024-09-24 03:30

Details

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.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-8791 (GCVE-0-2024-8791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-24 02:31 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:35

Title

Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress <= 1.8.1.14 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-24 13:44 UTC

CWE

CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charit…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
smub	Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.8.1.14 (semver)
wpcharitable	charitable	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.8.1.14 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:wpcharitable:charitable::::::wordpress::*

Credits

wesley

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