IDonate 2.1.5 - 2.1.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via idonate_donor_profile Function

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-4521
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 18, 2026
Last Updated February 19, 2026
Researcher kr0d
Description

The IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the idonate_donor_profile() function in versions 2.1.5 to 2.1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to hijack any account by reassigning its email address (via the donor_id they supply) and then triggering a password reset, ultimately granting themselves full administrator privileges.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug idonate (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 2.1.5 - 2.1.9
Patched Version
  • 2.1.0
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