Donation Forms by Charitable <= 1.7.0.12 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

9.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2023-4404
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published August 17, 2023
Last Updated August 23, 2023
Researcher István Márton - Wordfence

Description

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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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug charitable (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.7.0.13, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.0.12
Patched Version
  • 1.7.0.13

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