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GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 4.16.9 — Unauthenticated User Impersonation

CVE-2026-97196Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.16.9Update to 4.17.0 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.4% chance in 30 days38th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform give

  1. Affected≤ 4.16.9
  2. Patched in4.17.0

Update to 4.17.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.16.9. Version 4.17.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.17.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Abdelrhman Allam.

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to user impersonatyion in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof themselves as other users.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform

All 109
More vulnerabilities in GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.8Authenticated (Custom+) Privilege Escalation to 'donor_default_user_role' Parameter
≤4.19.1Update to 4.19.1.1
CVE-2026-118193
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤4.19.0.1Update to 4.19.0.2
CVE-2026-116853
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤4.19.0.0Update to 4.19.0.1
CVE-2026-111976
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Donation Amount Restriction Bypass
≤4.19.0.0Update to 4.19.0.1
CVE-2026-111974
Medium6.5Authenticated (Give Manager+) Path Traversal
≤4.19.0.0Update to 4.19.0.1
CVE-2026-111978

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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