Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-5977

Medium

Published: 19 July 2024

Published
19 July 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
—
Patch
—
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.3th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-5977 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Givewp Givewp. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0 via the 'handleRequest' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This…

more

makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with GiveWP Worker-level access and above, to delete and update arbitrary posts.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

givewp
givewp
≤ 3.14.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions
addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

AC-3 Access Enforcement
addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

References