Charitable Donation Forms Plugin up to 1.8.1.14 on WordPress resource injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Charitable Donation Forms Plugin up to 1.8.1.14 on WordPress. It has been rated as critical. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation results in resource injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-8791. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Charitable Donation Forms Plugin up to 1.8.1.14 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-99. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not restrict or incorrectly restricts the input before it is used as an identifier for a resource that may be outside the intended sphere of control. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-8791 since 09/13/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/24/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• Charitable

Name

• Donation Forms Plugin

Version

• 1.8.1.0
• 1.8.1.1
• 1.8.1.2
• 1.8.1.3
• 1.8.1.4
• 1.8.1.5
• 1.8.1.6
• 1.8.1.7
• 1.8.1.8
• 1.8.1.9
• 1.8.1.10
• 1.8.1.11
• 1.8.1.12
• 1.8.1.13
• 1.8.1.14

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