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CVE-2024-5939: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.13.0 - Missing Authorization to Limited Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'setup_wizard' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the setup wizard administrative pages.

Affected products

• stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: before 3.14.0 — fixed in 3.14.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform 3.14.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/tags/3.12.0/src/Onboarding/Wizard/Page.php#L78
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3120745/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a104f88b-deae-465d-b4c1-9a1fc78e5ee9?source=cve

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