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.
- Component
- GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
- Plugin slug
give- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 21, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-285 — Improper Authorization
This CVE was published Aug 21, 2025 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 modification of data due to a missing capability check on the give_update_payment_status() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with GiveWP Worker-level access and above, to update donations statuses. This ability is not present in the user interface.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N