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WP Maintenance <= 5.0.5 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2019-19979Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.0.5Update to 5.0.6 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP Maintenance wp-maintenance

  1. Affected≤ 5.0.5
  2. Patched in5.0.6

Update to 5.0.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.0.5. Version 5.0.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Maintenance.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.0.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP Maintenance to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Chloe Chamberland.

A flaw in the WordPress plugin, WP Maintenance before 5.0.6, allowed attackers to enable a vulnerable site's maintenance mode and inject malicious code affecting site visitors. There was CSRF with resultant XSS.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in WP Maintenance

All 7
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection
≤6.1.9.7Update to 6.1.9.8
CVE-2025-47683
Medium5.3IP Spoofing to Maintenance Mode Bypass
≤6.1.9.2Update to 6.1.9.3
CVE-2024-0789
Medium5.3Information Exposure
≤6.1.6Update to 6.1.7
CVE-2024-1472
Medium5.3IP Restriction Bypass
≤6.1.3Update to 6.1.4
CVE-2023-47769
Medium5.5Authenticated (Admin+) Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.0.7Update to 6.0.8
CVE-2022-30536

Same weakness (CSRF)

All CSRF
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Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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