GiveWP accepts donations through administrator-disabled gateways
GiveWP before 4.16.3 derives the available payment-gateway set partly from unauthenticated request input instead of enforcing only the gateways enabled by the administrator. A visitor can select a disabled gateway and complete a donation through a payment path the site owner intentionally removed from service. The published.
- Component
- GiveWP
- Plugin slug
givewp- Affected
- < 4.16.3
- Safe version
4.16.3- Published
- Jul 31, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jul 31, 2026 and is one of 29 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update GiveWP to 4.16.3 or later. Reconcile donations processed through gateways that were disabled at the time, confirm the validity and settlement state of those transactions, and review gateway credentials and configuration if an unintended processor was invoked.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The GiveWP WordPress plugin before 4.16.3 does not restrict the set of available payment gateways to those enabled by the administrator, deriving it in part from request input, which allows unauthenticated users to complete donations through a payment gateway the administrator has disabled.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N