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Missing Authorization

CVE-2019-25139

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated settings reset in versions up to, and including 1.8.1 due to missing capability checks in the ~/functions/data-reset-post.php file which makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger a plugin settings reset.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

The missing authorization vulnerability occurs when a software program allows users to access privileged parts of the program without verifying the user credentials. Impact of such a vulnerability depends on the resources employed by the software, ranging from account takeover to sensitive information exposure, denial of service, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published