CVE-2025-5275 Charitable <= 1.8.6.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin's Privacy Settings
Administrators can inject scripts via privacy settings in multi-site or restricted HTML environments, leading to stored XSS.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-5275?
CVE-2025-5275 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More, published on 26 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, 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 Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the privacy settings fields in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. This issue was partially fixed in version 1.8.6.1 and fully fixed in version 1.8.6.2.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5275?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpbeginner Charitable.
How do I fix CVE-2025-5275?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5275 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2025-5275 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5275 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jj56-99pp-w4hp.