CVE-2025-4522 Missing authorization in IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System

Medium 6.5 Published 7 Nov 2025 Updated 7 Nov 2025

Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary user accounts, including administrators, due to missing authorization checks 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-2025-4522?

CVE-2025-4522 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in themeatelier IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System, published on 7 Nov 2025. 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 Insecure Direct Object Reference via the admin_post_donor_delete() function in versions 2.0.0 to 2.1.9. By supplying an arbitrary user_id parameter value to the wp_delete_user() function, authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above could delete arbitrary user accounts, including those of administrators.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4522?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Themeatelier Idonate.

How do I fix CVE-2025-4522?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-4522 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-2025-4522 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4522 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-g482-6rxp-qvg7.