Conditional Maintenance Mode for WordPress <= 1.0.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
The Conditional Maintenance Mode for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to missing nonce validation when toggling the maintenance mode status. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable or disable the site's maintenance mode via a forged request granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12586
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-73m6-mfr6-wg7g
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/535f1d8a-8266-4f90-82fa-9c32181bf277?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/maintenance-mode-based-on-user-roles/tags/1.0.0/Maintenance_mode.php#L178
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3403376%40maintenance-mode-based-on-user-roles&new=3403376%40maintenance-mode-based-on-user-roles&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Sources
- CVE-2025-12586 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-12586 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-73m6-mfr6-wg7g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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