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CVE-2023-7019: LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder <= 2.6.8 - Missing Authorization
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-01-11 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-862
Description
The LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the insert_template function in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change page designs.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3013229/wp-maintenance-mode/trunk/includes/classes/wp-maintenance-mode-admin.php?contextall=1&old=2922691&old_path=%2Fwp-maintenance-mode%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2Fclasses%2Fwp-maintenance-mode-admin.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b57d3d1d-dcdb-4f11-82d8-183778baa075?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3013229/wp-maintenance-mode/trunk/includes/classes/wp-maintenance-mode-admin.php?contextall=1&old=2922691&old_path=%2Fwp-maintenance-mode%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2Fclasses%2Fwp-maintenance-mode-admin.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b57d3d1d-dcdb-4f11-82d8-183778baa075?source=cve
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