🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2023-4404

CRITICAL 9.8

Donation Forms by Charitable <= 1.7.0.12 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-269
Vendor smub
Product charitable – donation plugin for wordpress – fundraising with recurring donations & more
Published Aug 23, 2023
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

smub / Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
0 ≤ 1.7.0.12

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/522ecc1c-5834-4325-9234-79cf712213f3?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.7.0.12/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L866

Credits

István Márton