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Improper Access Control

CVE-2024-1473

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.99 via the REST API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain post and page contents via REST API thus bypassing maintenance mode protection provided by the plugin.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW
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CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published