FundPress <= 2.0.8 — Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Donation Status Modification via donate_action_status AJAX Handler

Am I affected?

• Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under FundPress – WordPress Donation Plugin.
• 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 2.0.9, or a newer patched version
2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
3. Watch FundPress – WordPress Donation Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan).

The FundPress – WordPress Donation Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to and including 2.0.8. This is due to missing authorization and nonce verification in the donate_action_status() AJAX handler, which is registered to be accessible to unauthenticated users via wp_ajax_nopriv. The function only validates that the schema parameter equals 'donate-ajax' and that the required POST parameters are present, but fails to verify user capabilities, nonce tokens, or donation ownership. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the status of any donation by providing its ID (which are sequential integers and easily enumerable), allowing them to mark donations as completed, pending, cancelled, or any arbitrary status, potentially triggering email notifications and related side effects.

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. May 1, 2026

   CVE published

   Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

2. Nov 13, 2026

   Record last updated