Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAccess public GiveWP donation form
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DeliverySubmit donation with XSS payload in donor field
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ExploitPayload stored in WordPress database
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ExecutionAdmin views donor records in dashboard
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PersistMalicious script executes in admin browser
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ImpactExfiltrate session token or perform admin actions
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The attacker must be able to submit a donation or donor record via the GiveWP public-facing form - this typically requires no WordPress account, only access to a published donation form on the target site. The CVSS PR:L suggests some low-level privilege is required for the injection step (potentially a registered donor account depending on plugin configuration). Exploitation requires a privileged WordPress user (administrator or editor with access to donation records) to subsequently view the page rendering the donor data (UI:R). Exploitation is limited to sites running GiveWP versions below 4.16.6 with at least one published donation form. There is no indication that non-default configuration is required - the donor submission and admin review flow is core GiveWP functionality. |
| Impact | The NVD CVSS 6.5 reflects the S:C (Changed) scope, which is the most significant risk amplifier here - an attacker with only donor-level access (PR:L) can reach the administrative context (admin browser session). EPSS data is not provided, and there is no CISA KEV listing, indicating no confirmed widespread exploitation. No POC has been identified. Despite the moderate base score, the practical impact is higher than the numeric suggests: successful exploitation against an administrator could yield full site compromise via WordPress admin account takeover. The UI:R requirement (admin must view the donor record) is a meaningful limiting factor and reduces automatable mass exploitation. AC:L indicates no special conditions beyond submitting a donation payload, which is low friction for an attacker. The A:L (availability) metric in the provided vector is atypical for XSS and is likely inflated - direct availability impact from a reflected/stored XSS is rare unless the payload performs a destructive admin action. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker submits a donation through the public-facing GiveWP form, injecting a JavaScript payload (e.g., a cookie-stealing script) into a donor name or custom input field. When a WordPress administrator navigates to the donation or donor management panel to review records, the stored payload fires in their browser session, exfiltrating the admin's session cookie or silently creating a rogue admin account. No POC has been publicly identified, but this attack pattern is trivially constructable from the vulnerability class. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 13, 2026
Stored Cross-Site Scripting in GiveWP's donor data handling allows a low-privileged attacker to inject malicious JavaScript into donor-submitted fields that executes in a privileged user's browser when donation records are viewed. All GiveWP installations running versions prior to 4.16.6 are affected. The CVSS scope change (S:C) indicates the injected script can operate outside the donor submission context - most likely executing within an administrator's session, enabling session hijacking or unauthorized admin actions. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Upgrade GiveWP to version 4.16.6 or later, which contains the vendor-released patch per the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/give/vulnerability/wordpress-givewp-plugin-4-16-6-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability). If an immediate upgrade is not feasible, restrict access to the donor management admin pages to trusted IP ranges using a Web Application Firewall or server-level access controls - this reduces the attack surface by limiting which administrators can trigger the payload. Additionally, enabling a strict Content Security Policy (CSP) header that blocks inline script execution can mitigate the impact of stored XSS payloads as a compensating control, though this may require testing for compatibility with GiveWP's own JavaScript. Note that restricting admin access does not eliminate the stored payload; the XSS content persists in the database until the plugin is patched.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
GiveWP (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:nexcess:givewp) is a widely-used WordPress plugin for managing charitable donations, donor records, and fundraising campaigns. CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) identifies the root cause: user-controlled donor input - such as a donor's name, address, or custom field - is rendered in an administrative or public-facing page without adequate output encoding or sanitization. The CVSS scope change (S:C) strongly suggests the injection point feeds into the WordPress admin dashboard donor management interface, meaning a script submitted by an unauthenticated-or-low-privilege donor executes in a higher-privilege browser context. This is a classic stored XSS pattern common in WordPress plugins that accept front-end user input and display it in the back-end.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
AV:N and PR:L reflect web form submission; S:C confirmed by admin context execution; A:N because XSS does not directly cause availability loss.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
Donor Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in GiveWP < 4.16.6 versions.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
The GiveWP - Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all
The GiveWP - Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all
Unauthenticated PHP object injection in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin (all versions through 4.16.7.1) lets remote
Improper privilege management in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin (affected ranging from 4.16.6 up to but not includ
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Stored cross-site scripting in the GiveWP WordPress plugin before version 4.16.3 allows authenticated users holding the
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The GiveWP WordPress plugin before 2.17.3 does not escape the json parameter before outputting it back in an attribute i
The GiveWP - Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform WordPress plugin before 2.10.0 was affected by a reflected Cross-S
The "Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform" plugin before 2.3.1 for WordPress has wp-admin/edit.php csv XSS. Rated me
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in GiveWP GiveWP allows Object Injection.19.3. Rated critical severity (
EUVD-2026-57914
GHSA-hmhg-vxc9-cg47
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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