WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-5087 Modified

Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page: A security weakness

Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page 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.

CVE / CNA score 6.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score 5.4 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page
Plugin slug
minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Jun 08, 2024
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published Jun 08, 2024 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon 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.

Source record

Technical description

The Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the validate_ajax, deactivate_ajax, and save_ajax functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.38. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to edit the license key, which could disable features of the plugin.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

References

Primary and upstream sources