# CVE-2022-0164: Coming soon and Maintenance mode < 3.6.7 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Email Sending to Subscribed Users

> Authenticated subscribers can send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users due to missing authorization and CSRF checks in the plugin's AJAX action.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Feb 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f5c9-gcjw-ghvw

## What is CVE-2022-0164?

CVE-2022-0164 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Coming soon and Maintenance mode, published on 21 Feb 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0164?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpdevart Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-0164?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0164 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-0164 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0164 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Coming soon and Maintenance mode

- [CVE-2021-24577](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24577/): Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode < 3.5.3 - Authenticated Stored XSS (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2022-0199](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0199/): Coming soon and Maintenance mode < 3.6.8 - Arbitrary Email Sending to Subscribed Users via CSRF (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0164 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-0164 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Coming soon and Maintenance mode, published on 21 Feb 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0164 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Coming soon and Maintenance mode. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0164/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0164/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0164
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0164
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0164

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0164/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.