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CVE-2024-1478

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-1478 describes a sensitive information exposure vulnerability in all versions up to and including 2.5.0 of the Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this flaw via the REST API to access post and page content, bypassing the plugin's intended content protection. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating a low complexity attack that can be executed over the network without user interaction, leading to a loss of confidentiality. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, <= 3.0.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:helderk:maintenance_mode:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
< 3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:helderk:maintenance_mode:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset
wordpress.org / plugins/hkdev-maintenance-mode
Product
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/36def628-e09e-4da0-ab14-35aefcb67f73
Third Party Advisory