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CVE-2025-7221: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 4.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Donation Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

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.

Affected products

• stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: before 4.6.1 — fixed in 4.6.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform 4.6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/trunk/includes/payments/functions.php#L339
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3333090/give
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8766608e-df72-4b9d-a301-a50c64fadc9a?source=cve

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