vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: charitable: CVE-2023-4404: Improper Privilege Management
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Aug 17, 2023 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 29, 2026 |
Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 17, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026
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.
Solution
charitable-plugin-cve-2023-4404
References
Rapid7 Labs
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