GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 4.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Donation Update

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-7221
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 20, 2025
Last Updated August 21, 2025
Researcher Brian Sans-Souci (liardom)
Description

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the give_update_payment_status() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with GiveWP Worker-level access and above, to update donations statuses. This ability is not present in the user interface.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug give (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5.0
Patched Version
  • 4.6.1
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