GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: A security weakness
GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
- Plugin slug
give- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 20, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Aug 20, 2024 and is one of 45 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and deletion of data due to a missing capability check on the 'handle_request' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.14.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read attachment paths and delete attachment files.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L