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

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

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug coming-soon-page (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.6
Patched Version
  • 3.6.7
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