CVE-2022-0164 (GCVE-0-2022-0164)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-21 10:46 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:18
VLAI
Title
Coming soon and Maintenance mode < 3.6.7 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Email Sending to Subscribed Users
Summary
The Coming soon and Maintenance mode WordPress plugin before 3.5.3 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in its coming_soon_send_mail AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, with a role as low as subscriber to send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Coming soon and Maintenance mode Affected: 0 , < 3.5.3 (custom)
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Credits
Krzysztof Zając WPScan
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