The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the privacy settings fields in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. This issue was partially fixed in version 1.8.6.1 and fully fixed in version 1.8.6.2.
CVE-2025-5275 is a medium severity with CVSS 4.4 Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the Plugin Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More. It affects Versions up to 1.8.6.1 and is fixed in 1.8.6.2.
Use the related hub and response guides to connect this CVE-2025-5275 report with patch validation, scanner checks, and site hardening work.
Open the grouped hub for related CVEs, affected ranges, severity mix, and patch coverage.
Check access, XML-RPC exposure, backup readiness, and monitoring after patching.
Use containment, evidence capture, remediation, and validation steps when exploit risk is high.
CVE-2025-5275 is tracked for the Plugin Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More as medium severity with CVSS 4.4. The affected range is Versions up to 1.8.6.1. Update Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More to 1.8.6.2 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
Search engines and operators need more than a title. This page exposes the identifier, affected range, patch evidence, and source coverage that make the vulnerability actionable.
This report has a CVE identifier, which makes it suitable for focused search and vulnerability triage workflows.
Affected version data gives operators a concrete comparison point against installed WordPress software.
A fixed version is present, so the page can answer update and remediation intent directly.
External references are available for source validation, advisory review, and incident notes.
Use these checks when converting this record into a patch ticket, incident note, or risk acceptance decision.
Inventory the installed Plugin package and compare its version with Versions up to 1.8.6.1.
Confirm Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More is updated to 1.8.6.2 or newer.
Review references and CVSS vector details for exploitability, authentication requirements, and exposure path.
After patching, re-run vulnerability monitoring and keep the related plugin or theme hub under review for follow-up CVEs.
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
charitable
View on wordpress.org
|
| CVE | CVE-2025-5275 |
| Patched Versions |
1.8.6.2
|
| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 1.8.6.1
|
These internal links group the same WordPress plugin by CVE, issue type, severity, and patch status so operators and search engines can connect the full vulnerability cluster.
Donation Forms by Charitable – Donations Plugin & Fundraising Platform for WordPress <= 1.8.1.14 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation
Donation Forms by Charitable <= 1.7.0.12 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Charitable <= 1.8.10.4 - Authenticated (Custom+) SQL Injection via 's' Search Parameter
Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More <= 1.8.8.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
Charitable <= 1.8.4.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Charitable <= 1.7.0.13 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Charitable – Donation Plugin <= 1.6.50 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More <= 1.8.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
This record contains material that is subject to copyright
License: Defiant hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute this software vulnerability information. Any copy of the software vulnerability information you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you include a hyperlink to this vulnerability record and reproduce Defiant's copyright designation and this license in any such copy. Read more
License: CVE Usage: MITRE hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®). Any copy you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you reproduce MITRE's copyright designation and this license in any such copy. Read more
