Charitable <= 1.8.6.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin's Privacy Settings

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2025-5275
CVSS Medium (4.4)
Publicly Published June 25, 2025
Last Updated June 26, 2025
Researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli
Description

The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the privacy settings fields in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. This issue was partially fixed in version 1.8.6.1 and fully fixed in version 1.8.6.2.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug charitable (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.6.1
Patched Version
  • 1.8.6.2
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