GiveWP <= 2.5.4 - Authorization Bypass

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2019-20360
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published September 26, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Matt Barry, Chloe Chamberland
Description

A flaw in Give before 2.5.5, a WordPress plugin, allowed unauthenticated users to bypass API authentication methods and access personally identifiable user information (PII) including names, addresses, IP addresses, and email addresses. Once an API key has been set to any meta key value from the wp_usermeta table, and the token is set to the corresponding MD5 hash of the meta key selected, one can make a request to the restricted endpoints, and thus access sensitive donor data.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug give (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.4
Patched Version
  • 2.5.5
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