CVE-2024-2017
The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the conditionsRow and switchCountdown functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject PHP Objects and modify the status of countdowns.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.4 Medium
- Status
- Modified - security@wordfence.com
- Published
- 2024-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-04-08
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Affected products
- Coming Soon (Adamskaat)
- Countdown (Adamskaat)
- Maintenance Countdown Clock (Adamskaat)
- Countdown Builder (Edmonsoft)
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L92
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096150/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097588/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d8fab229-cd6b-45a3-9e80-a03a1704ad3e?source=cve
