Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib <= 1.0.99 - Information Exposure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.1.0
- Affected Plugin
- Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.99- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
- CVE
CVE-2024-1473
At a glance
CVE-2024-1473 is a medium-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.99. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Francesco Carlucci.
Vulnerability Overview
The Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.99 via the REST API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain post and page contents via REST API thus bypassing maintenance mode protection provided by the plugin.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
Reaching this weakness in Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib <= 1.0.99 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.
Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib the fix is 1.1.0: builds <= 1.0.99 are affected, anything from 1.1.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.1.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib 1.1.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib
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