# CVE-2024-5087: Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page \<= 2.38 - Missing Authorization to Limited Settings Change

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-08 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- webfactory Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page: through 2.38

## Description

The Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the validate_ajax, deactivate_ajax, and save_ajax functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.38. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to edit the license key, which could disable features of the plugin.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on webfactory Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/affdaf63-2098-4ad6-b15b-990d1941fecb?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L52
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L54
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L561
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L585
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/tags/2.38/framework/wf-licensing.php#L596
- https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/CRLF%20Injection/README.md
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3099123/

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