Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode <= 2.10 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting and Setting Changes
CVE-2020-6167Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.10Update to 2.15 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode
- Affected≤ 2.10
- Patched in2.15
Update to 2.15 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.10. Version 2.15 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page.
- 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
- Update to version 2.15, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page 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, Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode through 2.10, allows a CSRF attack to enable maintenance mode, inject XSS, modify several important settings, or include remote files as a logo.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.3 | Missing Authorization to Limited Settings Change ≤2.38Update to 2.39 | CVE-2024-5087 | |
| Low3.7 | Unauthenticated Maintenance Mode Bypass ≤2.37Update to 2.38 | CVE-2024-1075 | |
| Medium5.5 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.33Update to 2.35 | — | |
| Medium5.5 | Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.34Update to 2.35 | — | |
| Medium5.4 | Missing Authorization to Export Settings/Theme Change <2.17Update to 2.17 | CVE-2020-6166 |
- Medium6.3Missing Authorization to Limited Settings Change
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- Low3.7Unauthenticated Maintenance Mode Bypass
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- Medium5.5Authenticated (Administrator+) Cross-Site Scripting
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- Medium5.5Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.34Update to 2.35
- Medium5.4Missing Authorization to Export Settings/Theme Change
<2.17Update to 2.17
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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