Maintenance Page: A security weakness
Maintenance Page is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Maintenance Page
- Plugin slug
maintenance-page- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 13, 2024
This CVE was published Mar 13, 2024 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Maintenance Page 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 Maintenance Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the subscribe_download function hooked via AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to download a csv containing subscriber emails.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N