{"id":194864,"date":"2024-08-21T07:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/givewp-wordpress-plugin-vulnerability-puts-100000-websites-at-risk"},"modified":"2024-08-21T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:22:24","slug":"givewp-wordpress-plugin-vulnerability-puts-100000-websites-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/givewp-wordpress-plugin-vulnerability-puts-100000-websites-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"GiveWP WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Puts 100,000+ Websites at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/givewp-wordpress-plugin-vulnerability-puts-100000-websites-at-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WordPress GiveWP donation and fundraising plugin that exposes more than 100,000 websites to remote code execution attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024\u20135932 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the plugin prior to version 3.14.2, which was released on August 7, 2024. A security researcher, who goes by the online alias villu164, has been credited with discovering and reporting the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The plugin is \u201cvulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.14.1 via deserialization of untrusted input from the \u2018give_title\u2019 parameter,\u201d Wordfence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/4998-bounty-awarded-and-100000-wordpress-sites-protected-against-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-patched-in-givewp-wordpress-plugin\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WordPress GiveWP donation and fundraising plugin that exposes more than 100,000 websites to remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024\u20135932 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the plugin prior to version 3.14.2, which was released on August 7, 2024. A security researcher, who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}