CVE-2022-0199: Coming soon and Maintenance mode < 3.6.8 - Arbitrary Email Sending to Subscribed Users via CSRF

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Coming soon and Maintenance mode WordPress plugin before 3.6.8 does not have CSRF check in its coming_soon_send_mail AJAX action, allowing attackers to make logged in admin to send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users via a CSRF attack

Affected products

Coming soon and Maintenance mode: before 3.6.8 — fixed in 3.6.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Coming soon and Maintenance mode 3.6.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2659455
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1ab1748f-c939-4953-83fc-9df878da7714
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2659455
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1ab1748f-c939-4953-83fc-9df878da7714

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