CVE-2025-4519

HIGH

IDonate 2.1.5-2.1.9 Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Missing Capability Check

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/idonate/tags/2.1.9/src/Helpers/DonorFunctions.php#L410

Patch

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

Release Notes

https://wordpress.org/plugins/idonate/#developers

Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/596aef67-582a-4506-bae9-c7be1899e47a?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0030

EPSS Percentile 21.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-285

Status published

Products (1)

themeatelier/idonate 2.1.5 - 2.1.10

Published Nov 07, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026