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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Unauthenticated network exploitation confirmed by PR:N and AV:N; impact is integrity-only with no confidentiality or availability effect per description and CVSS signal.
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CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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Unauthenticated Broken Access Control in GiveWP < 4.16.6 versions.
AnalysisAI
Broken access control in GiveWP, the WordPress donation management plugin, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to perform unauthorized integrity-affecting actions against installations running versions prior to 4.16.6. Rooted in CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), the flaw is network-exploitable with no authentication and low attack complexity, making it trivially automatable at scale against the plugin's widespread nonprofit and charity WordPress install base. …
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| Exploitation | No special conditions required for initial access - the CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N confirms unauthenticated exploitation from the network against default GiveWP configurations with no user interaction needed. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium) reflects a genuinely mixed risk posture: the attack surface is broad (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N means any internet-accessible site is reachable by any unauthenticated actor with trivial effort), but the impact envelope is narrow (I:L only - no confidentiality loss, no availability disruption). … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | An unauthenticated attacker enumerates WordPress sites running a GiveWP version below 4.16.6 - trivially discoverable via plugin header files or response fingerprinting - and sends a crafted HTTP request to the vulnerable endpoint without any session or authentication token. The missing authorization check allows the request to succeed, enabling unauthorized modification of donation records, campaign settings, or other plugin-managed data. … |
| Remediation | Vendor-released patch: GiveWP 4.16.6. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
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External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-57912
GHSA-22r8-gvpx-mqwv