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

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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Affected products

Wpcharitable/Charitable
cpe:2.3:a:wpcharitable:charitable:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=1.7.0.12
WordPress/Charitablellm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.7.0.12
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/charitable

Patches

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/522ecc1c-5834-4325-9234-79cf712213f3nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.7.0.12/includes/users/class-charitable-user.phpnvdProduct

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