CVE-2024-31285
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Tooltip WordPress Tooltips allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WordPress Tooltips: from n/a through 9.5.3.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress Tooltips plugin allows authenticated or unauthenticated attackers to craft malicious requests that inject persistent XSS payloads into the tooltip database. When administrators or users view the affected tooltips, the stored JavaScript executes in their browsers.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify WordPress Tooltips plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'WordPress Tooltips' or check the plugins directory for the tooltips plugin folderAffected if The WordPress Tooltips plugin is installed and active on the site
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Identify installed plugin versionIn WordPress admin plugins list, click on the plugin name to view details, or inspect the main plugin PHP file header for the Version field, or check /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-tooltips/ (or similar path) for the main PHP fileAffected if Version is unknown, outdated, or predates the security fix (any version lacking CSRF nonce verification on forms and AJAX actions)
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Inspect tooltip database for suspicious contentAccess the WordPress database via phpMyAdmin or WP-CLI and query the tooltips table (commonly wp_tooltips or similar naming) for patterns like <script, javascript:, onload=, onerror=, or other HTML/script tags in tooltip content fieldsAffected if Any tooltip entries contain raw HTML, script tags, or JavaScript event handlers that could indicate stored XSS payloads
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Check for CSRF protection in plugin codeInspect the main plugin PHP file for presence of nonce verification (wp_nonce_field, check_admin_referer, check_ajax_referer) on state-changing functions that save tooltip dataAffected if Plugin code lacks nonce verification on form submissions and AJAX actions that modify tooltip data
A user is affected if the WordPress Tooltips plugin is installed and either the version lacks CSRF nonces or suspicious XSS-containing tooltip entries exist in the database.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scopedUpdate the WordPress Tooltips plugin to the latest version which includes CSRF token verification (nonces) on state-changing forms and AJAX actions, along with proper input sanitization and output encoding to prevent stored XSS.
WordPress Tooltips version 9.5.4 or later
- Locate the WordPress Tooltips plugin in your WordPress installation
- Navigate to Plugins > All Plugins > WordPress Tooltips
- Check the currently installed version (should be 9.5.3 or lower)
- Update the plugin to the latest available version (9.5.4 or higher) which contains the security fix for CVE-2024-31285
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-31285 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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