CVE-2026-12470: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management in niteo CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes
The CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'cmp_ajax_import_settings' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
CVE-2026-12470: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management in niteo CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes
Description
The CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'cmp_ajax_import_settings' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.2high
Affected software
niteo
CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2026-06-16T19:39:31.956Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ab3323ef7a7c54106200133
Added to database: 09/23/2026, 01:58:22 UTC
Last updated: 09/23/2026, 01:58:22 UTC
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