Donor account takeover via unverified registration
Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 18, 2026
Missing authorization in GiveWP before 4.16.6 allows remote attackers to access or rebind donor-linked accounts via front-end registration. Patchstack does not publish the exact function name, but the 4.16.6 security diff adds a registration nonce and only auto-links donor records to WordPress users when the data is marked as coming from the verified donation-checkout flow, indicating that earlier code accepted direct registration requests and linked donors by email without that gate. Exposure depends on sites that expose GiveWP registration, and the bounded impact is unauthorized visibility into a victim donor's history plus unauthorized reassignment of the donor-to-user association.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in GiveWP before 4.16.6 allows remote attackers to access or rebind donor-linked accounts via front-end registration. Patchstack does not publish the exact function name, but the 4.16.6 security diff adds a registration nonce and only auto-links donor records to WordPress users when the data is marked as coming from the verified donation-checkout flow, indicating that earlier code accepted direct registration requests and linked donors by email without that gate. Exposure depends on sites that expose GiveWP registration, and the bounded impact is unauthorized visibility into a victim donor's history plus unauthorized reassignment of the donor-to-user association.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-73348
- Published
- Aug 18, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 18, 2026
- Vendor
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- Product
- GiveWP
- Classifications
- CWE-862
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 18, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 18, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=n/a <4.16.6 changes=[{"at":"4.16.6","status":"unaffected"}]
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