CVE-2024-8791 Auth bypass in Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
Unauthenticated attackers can update arbitrary user credentials, including administrators, leading to account takeover and privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8791?
CVE-2024-8791 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More, published on 24 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-639
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8791?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpcharitable Charitable.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8791?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8791 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2024-8791 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8791 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
- CVE-2023-4404 Donation Forms by Charitable <= 1.7.0.12 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2018-21011 Information disclosure in n/a
- CVE-2022-47441 WordPress Charitable Plugin <= 1.7.0.10 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2023-47816 WordPress Charitable Plugin <= 1.7.0.13 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2021-24531 Charitable – Donation Plugin < 1.6.51 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g3q3-27w2-fgmp.