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CVE-2024-5940: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.13.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Event Settings Update

• 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 modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'handle_request' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to edit event ticket settings if the Events beta feature is enabled.

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/EventTickets/Routes/UpdateEvent.php#L81
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/tags/3.12.0/src/EventTickets/Routes/UpdateEventTicketType.php#L78
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3120745/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d3cda8d0-321c-4b15-980e-5ebf49fac367?source=cve

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