WP Maintenance Mode <= 1.8.7 - Missing Authorization Checks & Cross-Site Request Forgery

5.4
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2013-3250
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published June 5, 2013
Last Updated January 22, 2024

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Maintenance Mode plugin before 1.8.8 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify this plugin's settings.

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Vulnerability Details for LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-maintenance-mode (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.8.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.8.8
Patched Version
  • 1.8.8

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