CVE-2026-12470

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.

Overview

State: PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA): Wordfence
CVSS severity: HIGH
CVSS score: 7.2 / 10
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Effective score: 7.2 / 10 HIGH source: CNA overview
CWE(s): CWE-269
Reserved: 2026-06-16
Published: 2026-09-22 05:30 UTC
Last updated: 2026-09-22 13:23 UTC
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/12xxx/CVE-2026-12470.json
Linked Threat: CVE-2026-12470 — CMP <= 4.1.17 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Option Update to cmp_ajax_import_settings AJAX Action

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NVD published: 2026-09-22 06:16:48 UTC
NVD last modified: 2026-09-22 19:04:55 UTC
NVD CVSS v3.1: 7.2 / 10 HIGH source: security@wordfence.com
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability subscore: 1.2 / 10
Impact subscore: 5.9 / 10
EPSS score: 0.0033 (probability of exploitation in next 30 days)
EPSS percentile: 26.57% vs all CVEs — higher = more likely to be exploited, as of 2026-09-22

European Union Vulnerability Database ENISA EUVD

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EUVD ID: EUVD-2026-84273
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: Sep 22, 2026, 5:30:43 AM
Updated: Sep 22, 2026, 1:23:05 PM
EUVD base score (CVSS 3.1): 7.2 / 10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EUVD-reported EPSS: 0.3300
Vendors: niteo
Products: CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes (0 ≤4.1.17)
Aliases: GHSA-wchw-wpj2-8j67

ENISA 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.

EUVD references (4)

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
niteo	CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes	`0` (affected)	—

Vendor references (4)

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Web references (0)

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NVD-tagged references (4)

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3104 security@wordfence.com
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3143 security@wordfence.com
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance&new=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance security@wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20e2f410-72a9-4d94-b80d-1cb625c08962?source=cve security@wordfence.com

Indicators (1)

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Type	Value	VirusTotal	Attached
cve	`CVE-2026-12470`	no local data	2026-09-21 20:38 UTC

Remediations (1)

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Wordfence remediation: CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes

Wordfence

Update to version 4.1.18, or a newer patched version

2026-09-21 20:38 UTC

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-12470.json.

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