GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: Cross-site scripting

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed. The published affected range is <= 4.16.3.

CVE / CNA score 6.4 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: <= 4.16.3
Safe version: > 4.16.3
Published: Jul 16, 2026
Weakness: CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published Jul 16, 2026 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 after 4.16.3, 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 Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'twitter_message' Sequoia Template Setting in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with give worker-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The injected script executes specifically when a donor clicks the Share on Twitter button on the Sequoia donation confirmation view, as that is when the unescaped twitter_message value is evaluated inside the JavaScript template literal.

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

References

Patch or disable the affected component.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources