WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

GiveWP < 4.16.1 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'block_id' Shortcode Attribute

Description

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'block_id' (and other) shortcode attributes of the 'givewp_campaign_comments' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.16.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes in CampaignCommentsShortcode::parseAttributes() and BlockRenderController::render(), where the blockId value is interpolated directly into a single-quoted HTML attribute without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.16.1

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
AmonRa
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-06-30 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-06-30 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-01 (about 3 months ago)

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