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WordPress Plugin Code Snippets Cross-Site Request Forgery (2.13.3)

Description

WordPress Plugin Code Snippets is prone to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow a remote attacker to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected application; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Code Snippets version 2.13.3 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 2.14.0 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/01/high-severity-csrf-to-rce-vulnerability-patched-in-code-snippets-plugin/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/code-snippets/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2020-8417 CWE-352 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF

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