WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2022-1580 Modified

Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode: A security weakness

Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS · contact@wpscan.com
NVD score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode
Plugin slug
site-offline
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Sep 19, 2022
Weakness
CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

This CVE was published Sep 19, 2022 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or 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 Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode WordPress plugin before 1.5.3 prevents users from accessing a website but does not do so if the URL contained certain keywords. Adding those keywords to the URL's query string would bypass the plugin's main feature.

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

Primary and upstream sources