WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-11981 Deferred

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.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 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
<= 4.15.3
Safe version
> 4.15.3
Published
Jul 01, 2026
Weakness
CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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