CVE-2022-1945: Coming Soon and Maintenance by Colorlib < 1.0.99 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-06-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib WordPress plugin before 1.0.99 does not sanitize and escape some settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting when unfiltered_html is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib: before 1.0.99 — fixed in 1.0.99

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib 1.0.99. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4ad297e5-c92d-403c-abf4-9decf7e8378b
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4ad297e5-c92d-403c-abf4-9decf7e8378b

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