CVE-2026-12470CMP <= 4.1.17 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Option Update to cmp_ajax_import_settings AJAX Action
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.58%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 52% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.58% · top 52% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
niteo · CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes
- affected ≤ 4.1.17
References
References4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20e2f410-72a9-4d94-b80d-1cb625c08962?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3143 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cmp-coming-soon-maintenance/tags/4.1.17/niteo-cmp.php#L3104 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance&new=3661069%40cmp-coming-soon-maintenance (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-84273 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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