FundEngine – Donation and Crowdfunding Platform <= 1.7.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

8.8
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-6698
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published July 31, 2024
Last Updated August 1, 2024
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran

Description

The FundEngine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying user meta updated through the update_user_meta function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update their user meta which can be leveraged to update their capabilities to gain administrator access.

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Vulnerability Details for FundEngine – Donation and Crowdfunding Platform

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-fundraising-donation (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.7.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.0
Patched Version
  • 1.7.1

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