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CVE-2020-12480

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12480 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) bypass vulnerability affecting Play Framework versions 2.6.0 through 2.8.1. An attacker can exploit this by crafting CORS simple requests with unparseable content type parameters. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but can lead to high integrity impact (I:H) if successfully exploited, though confidentiality and availability are not affected. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.6.0, <= 2.6.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.7.0, <= 2.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.8.0, <= 2.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.typesafe.play:play_2.12Fixed in: 2.7.5
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.typesafe.play:play_2.12Fixed in: 2.8.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-cf8j-64h9-6q58medium

CSRF in Play Framework

Aug 18, 2020

References

playframework.com / security/vulnerability
Vendor Advisory
playframework.com / security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12480-CsrfBlacklistBypass
Vendor Advisory