GSD-2023-4404

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
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.
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CVE-2023-4404
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