# CVE-2024-9705: Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance \<= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Template Name Update

- 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: 2024-12-06 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance: through 1.0.9

## Description

The Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ucsm_update_template_name_lite' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change the name of the plugin's templates.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rstheme2017 Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance, 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/3bef108a-2c68-4347-bf53-559b2d877f6b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-coming-soon/trunk/backend/tabs-content/templates/frontend-part/display-template.php#L139
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3206983%40ultimate-coming-soon%2Ftrunk&old=3192315%40ultimate-coming-soon%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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