CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-4404

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2023-08-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-269

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 configurations

• wpcharitable charitable (<= 1.7.0.12)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References