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CVE-2022-1576: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon WordPress plugin before version 2.4.5 contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that affects the functionality of emptying subscribed users list. This vulnerability was discovered in 2022 and assigned CVE-2022-1576 (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) with a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium) and is mapped to CWE-352. The issue stems from the plugin lacking proper CSRF protection when emptying the subscribed users list, which can be exploited through a simple form submission using document.getElementById("test").submit() (WPScan).

Impact

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to make a logged-in administrator unknowingly delete all subscribed users from the maintenance mode list through a CSRF attack. This could result in the loss of subscriber data and disrupt communication with users who have subscribed to updates (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.4.5 of the WP Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this CSRF vulnerability (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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