CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-6518
The CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file upload and remote code execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.16 via the `cmp_theme_update_install` AJAX action. This is due to the function only checking for the `publish_pages` capability (available to Editors and above) instead of `manage_options` (Administrators only), combined with a lack of proper validation on the user-supplied file URL and no verification of the dow
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes","vendor":"niteo","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"4.1.16","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-434","description":"CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
5 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.16/niteo-cmp.php#L1421"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.16/niteo-cmp.php#L1437"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.16/niteo-cmp.php#L1447"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fcmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.16&new_path=%2Fcmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d6fb275b-dbba-46df-b170-977ef4a84c4c?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:352d4a05ff114876097e3073751e673bb9e78a259af9b5ea083e65af0f9de9f3 · sha256:1221244c3427d995… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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