CVE-2025-4521 (GCVE-0-2025-4521)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-19 04:36 – Updated: 2026-02-19 17:37
VLAI
Title
IDonate 2.1.5 - 2.1.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via idonate_donor_profile Function
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-19 17:07 UTC
CWE
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2460 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
themeatelier IDonate – Blood Donation, Request And Donor Management System Affected: 2.1.5 , ≤ 2.1.9 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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