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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                    Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000
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Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:30:00 +0000
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| First Time appeared | Wpcharitable Wpcharitable charitable | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:wpcharitable:charitable:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products | Wpcharitable Wpcharitable charitable | |
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Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:45:00 +0000
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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. | |
| Title | Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress <= 1.8.1.14 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-639 | |
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| Metrics | cvssV3_1 
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2024-09-24T02:31:00.740Z
Updated: 2024-09-24T13:46:18.285Z
Reserved: 2024-09-13T16:21:29.906Z
Link: CVE-2024-8791
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    Updated: 2024-09-24T13:46:12.487Z
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-09-24T03:15:03.547
Modified: 2024-09-26T16:25:34.120
Link: CVE-2024-8791
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                        Redhat
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