# CVE-2024-9706: Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance <= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Template Activation

> Unauthenticated attackers can modify the coming soon or maintenance page template due to a missing capability check in the Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-67pg-v4wj-5w9x

## What is CVE-2024-9706?

CVE-2024-9706 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance, published on 6 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, 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_activate_lite_template_lite function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the template used for the coming soon / maintenance page.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9706?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Rstheme Ultimate Coming Soon \& Maintenance.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9706?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9706 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9706 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9706 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance

- [CVE-2025-24546](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24546/): WordPress Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance plugin <= 1.0.9 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2025-24543](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24543/): WordPress Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance plugin <= 1.0.9 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-9705](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9705/): Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance <= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Template Name Update (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9706 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9706 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance, published on 6 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9706 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance. 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-2024-9706/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9706/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9706
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9706
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9706

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9706/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.