# CVE-2024-56222: WordPress CodeBard Help Desk plugin <= 1.1.1 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

> Attackers can trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions in the CodeBard Help Desk WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pfpg-w2wm-jprg

## What is CVE-2024-56222?

CVE-2024-56222 is a medium-severity vulnerability in CodeBard Help Desk, published on 31 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CodeBard CodeBard Help Desk codebard-help-desk allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects CodeBard Help Desk: from n/a through <= 1.1.1.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56222?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Codebard Codebard Help Desk.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-56222?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-56222 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-56222 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56222 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in CodeBard Help Desk

- [CVE-2025-22760](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22760/): WordPress CodeBard Help Desk plugin <= 1.1.2 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-22757](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22757/): WordPress CodeBard Help Desk plugin <= 1.1.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-56222 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-56222 is a medium-severity vulnerability in CodeBard Help Desk, published on 31 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56222 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: CodeBard Help Desk. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56222/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56222/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56222
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56222
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-56222

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56222/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.