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CVE-2024-9706: Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance <= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Template Activation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2024-12-06 · 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_activate_lite_template_lite function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the template used for the coming soon / maintenance page.

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#L105
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3206983/ultimate-coming-soon/trunk/backend/tabs-content/templates/frontend-part/display-template.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a535eb7f-5ec7-4b3b-b46f-4f09434d04b6?source=cve

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