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CVE-2024-8791

Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress <= 1.8.1.14 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

Published: Sep 24, 2024Updated: Sep 26, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-639
9.8CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.7%
Top 49.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
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Description

The Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.1.14. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity when the ID parameter is supplied through the update_core_user() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the email address and password of arbitrary user accounts, including administrators, which can then be used to log in to those user accounts.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-639

Affected Products

wpcharitable
commercial
charitableMixed
Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin
smub
commercial
Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & MoreOn-premCMS Plugin
Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.1.14/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L872
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154009/charitable/trunk/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0ee60943-b583-4a99-8e62-846b380c98aa?source=cve
wordfence.com

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