CVE-2025-12586

4.3 MEDIUM

Published: November 25, 2025 Modified: April 15, 2026

Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/maintenance-mode-based-on-user-roles/tags/1.0.0/Maintenance_mode.php#L178

Source: security@wordfence.com

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=

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/535f1d8a-8266-4f90-82fa-9c32181bf277?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

3 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

4.3 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.0%

1th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352

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