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CVE-2025-4519: IDonate 2.1.5 - 2.1.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via idonate_donor_password Function

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-07 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-285

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.

Affected products

• themeatelier IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System: from 2.1.5 before 2.1.10 — fixed in 2.1.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: themeatelier IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System 2.1.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/idonate/tags/2.1.9/src/Helpers/DonorFunctions.php#L410
• 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
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/idonate/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/596aef67-582a-4506-bae9-c7be1899e47a?source=cve

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