CVE-2024-8353· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Wordfence

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.16.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 60/100)

A ready-made attack module is public (Metasploit, Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
A ready-made attack tool exists and the flaw can be exploited over the network without an account, so priority is at least “This week”.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 28.7% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 98.1% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
Fixed version: stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform 3.16.1.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Upgrade to stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform 3.16.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.16.1 via deserialization of untrusted input via several parameters like 'give_title' and 'card_address'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. The additional presence of a POP chain allows attackers to delete arbitrary files and achieve remote code execution. This is essentially the same vulnerability as CVE-2024-5932, however, it was discovered the the presence of stripslashes_deep on user_info allows the is_serialized check to be bypassed. This issue was mostly patched in 3.16.1, but further hardening was added in 3.16.2.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1—Weaponized Fix available

Published: Sep 27, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 28.7% · 98th percentile
CWE: CWE-502

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Action score

This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 9 / 30 · 28.7%
Ready-made attack tool: 12 / 60 · floor: at least 60

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · Wordfence: 9.8; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
givewp	givewp	cpe:2.3:a:givewp:givewp

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

givewp givewpbefore 3.16.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
- up to and including 3.16.1affected · semver

Same product

givewp: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2024-5932GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.14.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution
62This week
CVE-2023-0224GiveWP < 2.24.1 - Unauthenticated SQLi
40Plan
CVE-2019-13578A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Impress GiveWP Give plugin through 2.5.0 for WordPress.
40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-47315Sep 25, 2024 · WordPress GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin <= 3.15.1 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability
35Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-9130Sep 27, 2024 · GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.16.1 - Authenticated (GiveWP Manager+) SQL Injection via order Parameter
28Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-9634Oct 15, 2024 · GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.16.3 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution
39Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform	3.16.1 · description	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

Metasploit module ×1
Nuclei detection template ×1
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×2

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Nuclei detection template	Nuclei template CVE-2024-8353	—
Metasploit module	exploit/multi/http/wp_givewp_rceGiveWP Unauthenticated Donation Process Exploitexploit	2024-08-25
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:3	2024-08-21
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:12	2024-09-30

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

First PoCAug 21, 2024-38 d
MetasploitAug 25, 2024-34 d
PublishedSep 27, 2024
TodayOct 24, 2026+756 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

cuokonfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2024-593239 days apartGiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.14.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution
62This week
CVE-2024-963418 days apartGiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.16.3 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution
39Monitor
CVE-2024-3709939 days apartWordPress GiveWP plugin <= 3.14.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability
39Monitor
CVE-2024-12877106 days apartGiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.19.2 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
39Monitor
CVE-2025-22777108 days apartWordPress GiveWP Plugin <= 3.19.3 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability
39Monitor
CVE-2025-0912158 days apartGiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.19.4 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
39Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-1566 · Sep 30, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

Data received over the network is deserialized into the language’s native object format without verifying its source. Code paths inside the object can be triggered during deserialization.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-502 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

python

1payload = sock.recv(65536)
2job = pickle.loads(payload)

Fixed

python

1payload = sock.recv(65536)
2if not hmac.compare_digest(sign(payload), header_sig):
3    raise PermissionError("invalid signature")
4job = JobSchema.validate(json.loads(payload))