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GHSA-R6GX-4W42-5379

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-08-23 03:30 – Updated: 2024-04-04 07:09

Details

The Donation Forms by Charitable plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.7.0.12 due to insufficient restriction on the 'update_core_user' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to specify their user role by supplying the 'role' parameter during a registration.

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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  "modified": "2024-04-04T07:09:31Z",
  "published": "2023-08-23T03:30:18Z",
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    },
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CVE-2023-4404 (GCVE-0-2023-4404)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-23 01:58 – Updated: 2025-02-05 19:35

Summary

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


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

CWE

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	smub	Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress	Affected: * , ≤ 1.7.0.12 (semver)

Credits

Lana Codes

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-R6GX-4W42-5379

CVE-2023-4404 (GCVE-0-2023-4404)

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