{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-r6gx-4w42-5379",
  "modified": "2024-04-04T07:09:31Z",
  "published": "2023-08-23T03:30:18Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-4404"
  ],
  "details": "The Donation Forms by Charitable plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.7.0.12 due to insufficient restriction on the 'update_core_user' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to specify their user role by supplying the 'role' parameter during a registration.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4404"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.7.0.12/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L866"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/522ecc1c-5834-4325-9234-79cf712213f3?source=cve"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-269"
    ],
    "severity": "CRITICAL",
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-08-23T02:15:08Z"
  }
}