Name: CVE-2020-8417: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-8417, CWE-352, CVSS 8.8, EPSS 0.11905

The Code Snippets plugin before 2.14.0 for WordPress allows CSRF because of the lack of a Referer check on the import menu.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.8
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Code Snippets Plugin	—	Update code-snippets plugin to version 2.14.0, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	Jan 29, 2020

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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