Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress <= 1.8.1.14 — Insecure Direct Object Reference to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

Am I affected?

• Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Charitable – Donation & Fundraising Platform (Donation Forms, Recurring Donations & Fundraising Campaigns).
• No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
• No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

1. Update to version 1.8.1.15, or a newer patched version
2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
3. Watch Charitable – Donation & Fundraising Platform (Donation Forms, Recurring Donations & Fundraising Campaigns) to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to wesley (wcraft).

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

• Advisorywordfence.com

Related CVEs

Timeline

1. Sep 23, 2024

   CVE published

   Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

2. Nov 13, 2026

   Record last updated