CVE-2025-11893 SQL injection in Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
Authenticated subscribers can exploit SQL injection in the Charitable WordPress plugin to extract sensitive database information, requiring a paid donation for exploitation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11893?
CVE-2025-11893 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More, published on 25 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the donation_ids parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.8.4 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. Exploitation of the vulnerability requires a paid donation.
Weakness: CWE-89
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11893?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11893?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11893 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.
Is CVE-2025-11893 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11893 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x592-jf8c-q423.