Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-4404
CVE-2023-4404
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.
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