CVE-2020-8417 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Code Snippets plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 2.14.0. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) allows unauthenticated attackers to potentially achieve full site compromise, including Remote Code Execution (RCE), due to a missing Referer check on the import menu. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating its potential impact.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:codesnippets:code_snippets:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.