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.
Published: 2023-08-23
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-54267 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.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Donation Forms by Charitable <= 1.7.0.12 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Wpcharitable Charitable
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:52:44.943Z

Reserved: 2023-08-17T18:17:49.199Z

Link: CVE-2023-4404

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:24:04.702Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-23T02:15:08.887

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:14.577

Link: CVE-2023-4404

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

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Weaknesses