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CVE-2024-9705: Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance <= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Template Name Update

• 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: 2024-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ucsm_update_template_name_lite' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change the name of the plugin's templates.

Affected products

• rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance: before 1.1.0 — fixed in 1.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance 1.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-coming-soon/trunk/backend/tabs-content/templates/frontend-part/display-template.php#L139
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3206983%40ultimate-coming-soon%2Ftrunk&old=3192315%40ultimate-coming-soon%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bef108a-2c68-4347-bf53-559b2d877f6b?source=cve

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