VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-4404

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.91%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-08-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@wordfence.com: CWE-269
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-269

Primary references