CVE-2026-12470
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…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.58%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.58% probability · 47th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS moved from 0.3% on 22 September 2026 to 0.6% on 26 October 2026.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3104
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3143
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance&new=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20e2f410-72a9-4d94-b80d-1cb625c08962?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.