Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page <= 2.38 - Missing Authorization to Limited Settings Change
The Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the validate_ajax, deactivate_ajax, and save_ajax functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.38. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to edit the license key, which could disable features of the plugin.
- Published
- Jun 8, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 35th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-862
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Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 21 / 40 · 5.4 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 5.4
- CNA · Wordfence
- 6.3
- 0.9 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| webfactoryltd | minimal coming soon \& maintenance mode | cpe:2.3:a:webfactoryltd:minimal_coming_soon_\&_maintenance_mode |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- webfactoryltd minimal coming soon & maintenance modebefore 2.39
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
webfactory Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page
- up to and including 2.38affected · semver
Same product
webfactoryltd: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2020-6167A flaw in the WordPress plugin, Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode through 2.10, allows a CSRF attack to enable maintenance mode, inject35Monitor
- CVE-2020-6168A flaw in the WordPress plugin, Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode through 2.10, allows authenticated users with basic access to enable 31Monitor
- CVE-2024-1075Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page <= 2.37 - Unauthenticated Maintenance Mode Bypass21Monitor
- CVE-2020-6166A flaw in the WordPress plugin, Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode through 2.15, allows authenticated users with basic access to export 21Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Friderika Baranyaifinder
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- low · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- low · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- Low
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-862 · Missing AuthorizationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
We don't hand-write analysis for all 385,000+ vulnerabilities; that wouldn't be honest. For notable, high-impact vulnerabilities our team writes the mechanism, detection and remediation steps.
We use this product, ask for helpChange log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
- github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/CRLF%20Injection/README.md
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L51
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L52
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L54
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L561
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L585
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L596
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3099123/
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/affdaf63-2098-4ad6-b15b-990d1941fecb?source=cve
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.