GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: Cross-site request forgery
GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request. The published affected range is <= 4.15.3.
- Component
- GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
- Plugin slug
give- Affected
- <= 4.15.3
- Safe version
> 4.15.3- Published
- Jul 01, 2026
This CVE was published Jul 01, 2026 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 after 4.15.3, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The GiveWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.15.3 This is due to missing nonce validation on the give_set_notification_status_handler() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to disable donation email notifications via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2026-11981
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- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com