CVE-2025-4521 Missing authorization in IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System
Authenticated subscribers can hijack any account and gain administrator privileges due to a missing capability check in the IDonate WordPress plugin.
- 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-2025-4521?
CVE-2025-4521 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in themeatelier IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System, published on 19 Feb 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the idonate_donor_profile() function in versions 2.1.5 to 2.1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to hijack any account by reassigning its email address (via the donor_id they supply) and then triggering a password reset, ultimately granting themselves full administrator privileges.
Weakness: CWE-285
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4521?
How do I fix CVE-2025-4521?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-4521 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-4521 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4521 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gfpc-fhhf-f36m.