GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 4.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Donation Update
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-285.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-7221
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5cgj-h4pf-6j35
References
More stellarwp vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-05498 Deserialization of untrusted data in stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2023-02655 BookIt <= 2.3.7 - Authentication Bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-07671 The Events Calendar <= 6.6.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-03888 The Events Calendar < 6.4.0.1 - Reflected XSS CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2024-07745 GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.16.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-04952 The Events Calendar < 6.8.2.1 - Unauthenticated Password Protected Event Disclosure CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2025-7221 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-7221 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5cgj-h4pf-6j35 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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