CVE-2025-12586
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.
CVSS
- Version: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Base score: 4.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.17%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 5
- Score date: 10/6/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.
CWEs
- CWE-352
References
- 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=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/535f1d8a-8266-4f90-82fa-9c32181bf277?source=cve
Raw JSON (NVD)
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