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200K WordPress Sites Exposed to Takeover Attacks by Plugin Bug

A high severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug allows attackers to take over WordPress sites running an unpatched version of the Code Snippets plugin because of missing referer checks on the import menu. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-8417 and rated as high severity was patched with the release of version 2.14.0 on January 25, two days after it was discovered and reported to the plugin’s developer by Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/200k-wordpress-sites-exposed-to-takeover-attacks-by-plugin-bug/

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