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CVE-2024-5087: Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page <= 2.38 - Missing Authorization to Limited Settings Change

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the validate_ajax, deactivate_ajax, and save_ajax functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.38. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to edit the license key, which could disable features of the plugin.

Affected products

• webfactory Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page: before 2.39 — fixed in 2.39

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: webfactory Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page 2.39. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/CRLF%20Injection/README.md
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L51
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L52
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L54
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L561
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L585
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L596
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3099123/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/affdaf63-2098-4ad6-b15b-990d1941fecb?source=cve
• https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/CRLF%20Injection/README.md
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L51
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L52

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