CVE-2024-8791 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 1.8.1.14 of the Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress plugin. This flaw stems from improper user identity verification within the update_core_user() function when an ID parameter is provided. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to modify the email and password of any user account, including administrators, leading to full account compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.8.1.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpcharitable:charitable:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.