WordPress security changelog
CRITICAL CVE-2024-9634 Analyzed

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: Code execution

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform is affected by code execution. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Successful exploitation can run attacker-controlled code in the WordPress hosting account.

CVE / CNA score 9.8 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
Plugin slug
give
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Oct 16, 2024
Weakness
CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

This CVE was published Oct 16, 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 PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.16.3 via deserialization of untrusted input from the give_company_name parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. The additional presence of a POP chain allows attackers to achieve remote code execution.

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

References

Primary and upstream sources