CVE-2023-4404

Summary

CVE-2023-4404 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Donation Forms plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in versions up to 1.7.0.12, stems from insufficient access controls on the 'update_core_user' function. Consequently, unauthenticated attackers can manipulate their user role during registration by supplying the 'role' parameter, thereby gaining elevated privileges within the WordPress installation. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to sites utilizing the Charitable plugin and requires immediate attention and patching.

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