Maintenance & Coming Soon Redirect Animation <= 2.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-9503
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 19, 2024
Last Updated March 12, 2025
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Maintenance & Coming Soon Redirect Animation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wploti_add_whitelisted_roles_option', 'wploti_remove_whitelisted_roles_option', 'wploti_add_whitelisted_users_option', 'wploti_remove_whitelisted_users_option', and 'wploti_uploaded_animation_save_option' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify certain plugin settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug maintenance-coming-soon-redirect-animation (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.3
Patched Version
  • 2.3.0
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