Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 24, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-8791
CVE-2024-8791
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.
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Affected products
4- Range: <=1.8.1.14
- smub/Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & Morev5Range: 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154009/charitable/trunk/includes/users/class-charitable-user.phpnvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0ee60943-b583-4a99-8e62-846b380c98aanvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.1.14/includes/users/class-charitable-user.phpnvdProduct
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