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Smart Maintenance Mode, CVE-2025-1490

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-1490

Published on
Mar 26, 2025
Research Description
The Smart Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘setstatus’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions
Min -, max 1.5.3.
Status
vulnerable