GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.13.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (GiveWP Worker+) Arbitrary Post Actions

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-5977
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published July 18, 2024
Last Updated July 19, 2024
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug give (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.13.0
Patched Version
  • 3.14.0
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