Coming soon and Maintenance mode <= 3.6.6 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Email Send

4.3
Incorrect Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-0164
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 24, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Coming soon and Maintenance mode WordPress plugin before 3.6.8 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in its coming_soon_send_mail AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, with a role as low as subscriber to send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users.

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Vulnerability Details for Coming soon and Maintenance mode

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug coming-soon-page (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.6.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.6
Patched Version
  • 3.6.7

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