{"id":"CVE-2024-7420","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-7420","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:14:18.081Z","title":"The Insert PHP Code Snippet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.6.","description":"The Insert PHP Code Snippet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation in the /admin/snippets.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate/deactivate and delete code snippets via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. CVE-2024-43275 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.","published":"2024-08-15T03:15:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:20:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-352"],"affected":["xyzscripts/insert php code snippet"],"epss":{"score":0.00247,"percentile":0.15886,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.25%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/insert-php-code-snippet/trunk/admin/snippets.php#L28","tags":["Product"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3134787/insert-php-code-snippet/trunk/admin/snippets.php","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/88001f3c-f5cc-4051-a713-788014e2241a?source=cve","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7420","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}