CVE-2024-1075

Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page <= 2.37 - Unauthenticated Maintenance Mode Bypass

2024-02-05 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.38
Affected Plugin: Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page
Affected Version: <= 2.37
CVSS: 3.7Low
Weakness type: CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE: CVE-2024-1075

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At a glance

CVE-2024-1075 is a low-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Minimal Coming Soon WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.37. It carries a CVSS score of 3.7 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.38; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2024, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to maintenance mode bypass and information disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 2.37. This is due to the plugin improperly validating the request path. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass maintenance mode and view pages that should be hidden.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Reaching this weakness in Minimal Coming Soon <= 2.37 takes no account at all. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Minimal Coming Soon the fix is 2.38: builds <= 2.37 are affected, anything from 2.38 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.38, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Minimal Coming Soon 2.38 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1075 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/78203b98-15bc-4d8e-9278-c472b518be07 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1075

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page

CVSS Vector

3.7

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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