CVE-2024-8353GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 3.16.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 32.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and a Nuclei template for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- GiveWP Unauthenticated Donation Process Exploit (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/wp_givewp_rceRank excellentdisclosed 25 Aug 2024
Nuclei templates1 template
- GiveWP Donation Plugin <= 3.16.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-8353.yamlSeverity critical
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 32.6% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
stellarwp · GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
- affected ≤ 3.16.1
References
References6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c4c530fa-eaf4-4721-bfb6-9fc06d7f343c?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/tags/3.16.0/includes/process-donation.php#L154 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149290/give/tags/3.16.1/includes/process-donation.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149290/give/tags/3.16.1/includes/admin/admin-actions.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149290/give/tags/3.16.1/src/Helpers/Utils.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3157829/give/tags/3.16.2/includes/process-donation.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-49119 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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