Cross-site request forgery in Code Snippets - CVE-2020-8417
Published: January 29, 2020 / Updated: February 21, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24724
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8417
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin on the import menu. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, leading to remote code execution.
Affected software
Code Snippets
How to mitigate CVE-2020-8417
Install update from vendor's website.
Code Snippets - update to 2.14.0
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
- Exploit #5159 - WordPress_CVE-2020-8417 (CSRF Code snippet vulnerability CVE-2020-8417) (February 21, 2021)
- Exploit #4985 - codesnippets_CVE-2020-8417 () (January 3, 2021)
- Exploit #2943 - wp-codesnippets-cve-2020-8417 (Docker repository with a PoC for WP Code Snippets 2.13.3 (CVE-2020-8417)) (June 3, 2020)
- Exploit #2945 - CVE-2020-8417 () (June 3, 2020)