Charitable WordPress Plugin Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress, specifically in versions through 1.8.6.1. This vulnerability arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping in the privacy settings fields. As a result, authenticated attackers with administrator-level access can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which will execute when users access the affected pages. This issue is present only in multi-site installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for stored cross-site scripting, where injected scripts are executed in the context of the user viewing the page.

Remediation

Users can update to version 1.8.6.2 or a newer patched version to address this vulnerability.