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CVE-2024-1472: WP Maintenance <= 6.1.6 - Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: none known
• Published: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The WP Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.6 via the REST API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the plugin's maintenance mode obtain post and page content via REST API.

Affected products

• florent73 WP Maintenance: before 6.1.7 — fixed in 6.1.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: florent73 WP Maintenance 6.1.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3035862%40wp-maintenance%2Ftrunk&old=3032356%40wp-maintenance%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file4
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/645328f3-2bcb-4287-952c-2e23ec57bb4e?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3035862%40wp-maintenance%2Ftrunk&old=3032356%40wp-maintenance%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file4
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/645328f3-2bcb-4287-952c-2e23ec57bb4e?source=cve

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