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2 vulnerabilities found for Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown by wpdevart

CVE-2025-14555 (GCVE-0-2025-14555)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-01-10 12:23 – Updated: 2026-01-12 13:10
VLAI?
Title
Countdown Timer - Widget Countdown <= 2.7.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Summary
The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpdevart_countdown' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpdevart Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown Affected: * , ≤ 2.7.7 (semver)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Muhammad Yudha - DJ
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CVE-2025-14555 (GCVE-0-2025-14555)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-10 12:23 – Updated: 2026-01-12 13:10
VLAI?
Title
Countdown Timer - Widget Countdown <= 2.7.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Summary
The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpdevart_countdown' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpdevart Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown Affected: * , ≤ 2.7.7 (semver)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Muhammad Yudha - DJ
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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