CVE-2024-5932: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-5932) contains a critical PHP Object Injection vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 3.14.1. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on August 19, 2024, impacting over 100,000 WordPress sites using this popular donation plugin (Wordfence Blog).

The vulnerability stems from the insecure deserialization of untrusted input from the 'give_title' parameter, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform PHP Object Injection. The severity is rated as Critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (NIST) and 10.0 (Wordfence), indicating the highest level of risk. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-502 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data) (NVD).

The exploitation of this vulnerability allows attackers to execute code remotely and delete arbitrary files on affected systems. Given that no authentication is required and the plugin is widely used, the potential impact is severe, potentially leading to complete system compromise (NVD).

Site administrators are strongly advised to update their GiveWP plugin to version 3.14.2 or later, which contains the security patch. The fix was implemented through multiple code changes, including updates to various components of the plugin (Wordfence Blog).

The security community responded quickly to this vulnerability, with Wordfence being awarded a $4,998 bounty for responsible disclosure. The WordPress.org Security Team was involved in the remediation process, highlighting the collaborative effort to protect users (Wordfence Blog).