CVE-2026-85530High· 8.1▾ Twilight

The GiveWP WordPress plugin before 4.16.8.1 does not consistently normalise a donor's e-mail address between the value it stores and the value it later uses to look that donor up, allowing unauthenticated users to be resolved as an arbi…

▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw

Depth score45/ 100 · Moderate

impact 44.6 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0

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Published

Sep 16, 2026

Updated

Sep 17, 2026

CVSS

8.1

Vendor

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Product

GiveWP

CWE

CWE-269

Depth score

45 · Moderate

EPSS

0.38% · p32

Platforms

—

Source

NVD

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

decided 2026-09-17

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake.

EPSS history

Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 17.

0.2% → 0.4%▲ 0.2%

Timeline

Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.

6 events · 9 days

Sep 16, 2026Published
Disclosed via NVD
Sep 17, 2026Record revised
Last analysed / modified upstream
Sep 17, 2026EPSS first tracked
0.2%
Sep 17, 2026CVSS changed
— → 8.1
Sep 17, 2026Severity changed
none → high
Sep 25, 2026EPSS peak
0.2% → 0.4%

CWE-269 #nvd #cve.org

Affected

GiveWP >= 4.16.6 < 4.16.8.1

Full technical detail▾

Overview

The GiveWP WordPress plugin before 4.16.8.1 does not consistently normalise a donor's e-mail address between the value it stores and the value it later uses to look that donor up, allowing unauthenticated users to be resolved as an arbitrary donor and to set the WordPress password of any user account linked to one, including an administrator's.

Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

References

[email protected] — https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/83fcea02-345a-443c-b14e-316533a2fd7d/

Change history

Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.

Sep 17, 2026CVSS — → 8.1
Sep 17, 2026Severity none → high

Related vulnerabilities

Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.

#nvd#cve.org

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