CVE-2026-10038
Description
The Charitable โ Donation Plugin for WordPress โ Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference / Authorization Bypass leading to Arbitrary Attachment Deletion in versions up to, and including, 1.8.11.1 via the profile avatar update flow. This is due to the save_avatar() function in Charitable_Profile_Form calling wp_delete_attachment() on an attachment ID read from the user's 'avatar' meta without validating that the attachment is owned by the user, combined with Charitable_Data_Processor::process_picture() returning the raw posted value when no file is uploaded, allowing the 'avatar' user meta to be poisoned with any attacker-chosen attachment ID. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments from the Media Library by performing a two-request chain (first poisoning the stored avatar meta value with a target attachment ID, then triggering deletion via a normal avatar upload).
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10.5/includes/abstracts/abstract-class-charitable-form.php#L429
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10.5/includes/forms/class-charitable-profile-form.php#L724
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10.5/includes/forms/class-charitable-profile-form.php#L728
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10.5/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L986
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10.5/includes/utilities/class-charitable-data-processor.php#L270
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10/includes/abstracts/abstract-class-charitable-form.php#L429
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10/includes/forms/class-charitable-profile-form.php#L724
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10/includes/forms/class-charitable-profile-form.php#L728
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10/includes/users/class-charitable-user.php#L986
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/charitable/tags/1.8.10/includes/utilities/class-charitable-data-processor.php#L270
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3557047/charitable/trunk/includes/forms/class-charitable-profile-form.php?old=3435951&old_path=charitable%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2Fforms%2Fclass-charitable-profile-form.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/657bea00-9709-48b8-807a-c9a18b0aee1d?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-639
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.