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CVE-2025-4521: IDonate 2.1.5 - 2.1.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via idonate_donor_profile Function

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• 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_profile() function in versions 2.1.5 to 2.1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to hijack any account by reassigning its email address (via the donor_id they supply) and then triggering a password reset, ultimately granting themselves full administrator privileges.

Affected products

• themeatelier IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System: from 2.1.5 through 2.1.9

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/idonate/tags/2.1.9/src/Helpers/DonorFunctions.php#L310
• 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/51d4b7f6-183b-4a8d-a94d-83c66950a872?source=cve

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