CVE-2024-9705 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance <= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Template Name Update

Medium 4.3 Published Updated

Authenticated subscribers can modify plugin template names due to missing capability checks in the Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance WordPress plugin.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-9705?

CVE-2024-9705 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance, published on 6 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ucsm_update_template_name_lite' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change the name of the plugin's templates.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9705?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Rstheme Ultimate Coming Soon \& Maintenance.

How do I fix CVE-2024-9705?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9705 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-9705 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9705 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-qxq3-cg95-r82h.

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