CVE-2024-5977
GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.13.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (GiveWP Worker+) Arbitrary Post Actions
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0 via the 'handleRequest' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with GiveWP Worker-level access and above, to delete and update arbitrary posts.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
stellarwp · GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
- affected ≤ 3.13.0
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2dca6c29-9f05-4d82-90e3-834f1dd8005a?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/trunk/src/DonationForms/V2/Endpoints/FormActions.php#L96 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3120745/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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