CVE-2023-4404

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 v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:wpcharitable:charitable:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

28 Aug 2023, 20:46

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:wpcharitable:charitable::::::wordpress::*
First Time		Wpcharitable charitable Wpcharitable
References	~~(MISC) https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.7.0.12/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L866 -~~	(MISC) https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.7.0.12/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L866 - Product
References	~~(MISC) https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/522ecc1c-5834-4325-9234-79cf712213f3?source=cve -~~	(MISC) https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/522ecc1c-5834-4325-9234-79cf712213f3?source=cve - Third Party Advisory

23 Aug 2023, 02:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-08-23 02:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 20:33

NVD link : CVE-2023-4404

Mitre link : CVE-2023-4404

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-4404

JSON object : View

Products Affected

wpcharitable

charitable

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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