Maintenance Mode <= 3.0.1 - Information Exposure

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-1478
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published March 4, 2024
Last Updated March 28, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1 via the REST API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain post and page content via API thus bypassing the content protection provided by the plugin.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug hkdev-maintenance-mode (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.1
Patched Version
  • 3.0.2
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