GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: A security weakness

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 5.4 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com

NVD score 5.4 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
Plugin slug: give
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: Jul 19, 2024
Weakness: CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

This CVE was published Jul 19, 2024 and is one of 45 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

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.

Source record

Technical description

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0 via the 'handleRequest' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with GiveWP Worker-level access and above, to delete and update arbitrary posts.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

References

Patch or disable the affected component.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources