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Improper Authorization

CVE-2025-7221

Medium
4.3/10

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.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • NONE
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CWE-285 - Improper Authorization

The software does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published