CVE-2023-4404 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/522ecc1c-5834-4325-9234-79cf712213f3?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.7.0.12/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L866

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8