CVE-2024-1478
Maintenance Mode <= 3.0.1 - Information Exposure
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Mar 5, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Feb 13, 2024
Description
The Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1 via the REST API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain post and page content via API thus bypassing the content protection provided by the plugin.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Maintenance Modehelderk |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/36def628-e09e-4da0-ab14-35aefcb67f73?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/hkdev-maintenance-mode/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3044964%40hkdev-maintenance-mode&new=3044964%40hkdev-maintenance-mode&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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