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CVE-2022-4004: Donation Button <= 4.0.0 - Subscriber+ Broken Access Control leading to SMS Spam

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Donation Button WordPress plugin through 4.0.0 does not properly check for privileges and nonce tokens in its "donation_button_twilio_send_test_sms" AJAX action, which may allow any users with an account on the affected site, like subscribers, to use the plugin's Twilio integration to send SMSes to arbitrary phone numbers.

Affected products

• Donation Button: through 4.0.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6a3bcfb3-3ede-459d-969f-b7b30dafd098
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6a3bcfb3-3ede-459d-969f-b7b30dafd098

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