Coming soon and Maintenance mode: Cross-site request forgery
Coming soon and Maintenance mode is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Coming soon and Maintenance mode
- Plugin slug
coming-soon-and-maintenance-mode- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 21, 2022
This CVE was published Feb 21, 2022 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Coming soon and Maintenance mode to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Coming soon and Maintenance mode WordPress plugin before 3.6.8 does not have CSRF check in its coming_soon_send_mail AJAX action, allowing attackers to make logged in admin to send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users via a CSRF attack
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N