Vulnerability · Published Jan 28, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-8417
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 11.9% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS 3.0)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)11.9%top 3.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
The Code Snippets plugin before 2.14.0 for WordPress allows CSRF because of the lack of a Referer check on the import menu.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/#developers x_refsource_MISC
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10050 x_refsource_MISC