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Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress, CVE-2023-4404

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-4404

Published on
Aug 23, 2023
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 1.7.0.14.
Status
vulnerable