CVE-2024-56015 HIGH

CVE-2024-56015: WordPress Tidy Up Plugin <= 1.3 - CSRF to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability

Vendor John Godley

Product Tidy Up

Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF

Published December 16, 2024

Last update April 28, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction Required

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in John Godley Tidy Up allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Tidy Up: from n/a through 1.3.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Tidy Up versions 1.3 and earlier contain a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. An attacker can craft a malicious webpage that, when visited by a logged-in site administrator, performs unwanted actions on the site without the administrator's knowledge. The vulnerability requires user interaction—the admin must visit the attacker's page while logged in.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Perform actions on the site (read data, modify settings, delete content) on behalf of a logged-in administrator.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

An attacker can trick your administrators into unknowingly changing site settings or data by visiting a malicious link.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

A logged-in site administrator must visit an attacker-controlled webpage while using the same browser.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

December 16, 2024 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56015 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html AskarLabs — CWE-352 write-up Cross-Site Request Forgery

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