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

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-8791
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published September 23, 2024
Last Updated September 24, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug charitable (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.1.14
Patched Version
  • 1.8.1.15
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