Improper privilege management in niteo CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
The CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'cmp_ajax_import_settings' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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-2026-12470
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wchw-wpj2-8j67
References
Other 4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20e2f410-72a9-4d94-b80d-1cb625c08962?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3143
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3104
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance&new=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance
More niteo vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-18901 CMP <= 3.8.1 - Missing Authorization CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-05713 Unrestricted file upload in niteo CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2025-23216 WordPress CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance plugin <= 4.1.14 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2023-01196 CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes <= 4.1.6 - Information Exposure CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2023-02027 CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance <= 4.1.7 - Maintenance Mode Bypass CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2022-00127 Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes < 4.0.19 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary CSS Update CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-12470 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-12470 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wchw-wpj2-8j67 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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