Description
The FundEngine – Donation and Crowdfunding Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify arbitrary posts and pages — overwriting title and content, and seizing ownership by supplying an attacker-controlled post_author integer that bypasses wp_kses_post sanitization. The wp_rest nonce required by the handler is trivially obtainable by any logged-in user via /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=rest-nonce and therefore does not constitute an authorization barrier.
References5
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-fundraising-donation/tags…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-fundraising-donation/tags…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-fundraising-donation/tags…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3656562%40wp…
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08057fa2-90e1…
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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4.3
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 31 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-862
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