FundEngine – Donation and Crowdfunding Platform, CVE-2024-6698

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-6698
Home page URL: Security reports for FundEngine – Donation and Crowdfunding Platform
Application: FundEngine – Donation and Crowdfunding Platform
Published on: Aug 01, 2024
Research Description: The FundEngine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying user meta updated through the update_user_meta function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update their user meta which can be leveraged to update their capabilities to gain administrator access.
Affected versions: Min -, max 1.7.1.
Status: vulnerable