LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder <= 2.6.8 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-7019
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 5, 2024
Last Updated July 29, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the insert_template function in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change page designs.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-maintenance-mode (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.8
Patched Version
  • 2.6.9
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