Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-12561

Medium

Published: 21 May 2025

Published
21 May 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0014 34.3th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-12561 is a medium-severity Open Redirect (CWE-601) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 34.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Affiliate Sales in Google Analytics and other tools plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect url supplied via the 'afflink' parameter.…

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This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into performing an action.

CWE(s)
CWE-601

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Wordpress
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
addresses: CWE-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-601

Validates redirect targets and URLs to ensure they conform to allowed destinations.

References