Critical severity · published Sep 24, 2024
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
9.8
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 54% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CD
Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More · smub
through 1.8.1.14 · source: vendor
CH
Charitable · Wpcharitable
before 1.8.1.15 · source: NVD, CISA
Affected product
CD
Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
smub
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8791
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8791
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.1.14/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L872
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154009/charitable/trunk/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0ee60943-b583-4a99-8e62-846b380c98aa?source=cve
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