LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder: A security weakness
LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder
- Plugin slug
lightstart- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 11, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jan 11, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder 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 LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the insert_template function in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change page designs.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N