CVE-2025-4519

The IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the idonate_donor_password() function in versions 2.1.5 to 2.1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to initiate a password reset for any user (including administrators) and elevate their privileges for full site takeover.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/idonate/tags/2.1.9/src/Helpers/DonorFunctions.php#L410	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3334424/idonate/tags/2.1.10/src/Helpers/DonorFunctions.php?old=3279142&old_path=idonate%2Ftags%2F2.1.9%2Fsrc%2FHelpers%2FDonorFunctions.php	Patch
https://wordpress.org/plugins/idonate/#developers	Release Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/596aef67-582a-4506-bae9-c7be1899e47a?source=cve	Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:themeatelier:idonate:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-11-07 05:16

Updated : 2025-12-04 21:20

NVD link : CVE-2025-4519

Mitre link : CVE-2025-4519

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-4519

JSON object : View

Products Affected

themeatelier

idonate

CWE

CWE-285

Improper Authorization

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