CVE-2024-2017 (GCVE-0-2024-2017)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-06 02:38 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:26
VLAI
Title
Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.7.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection
Summary
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.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-10 17:38 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
adamskaat Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.7.8 (semver)
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Credits
Lucio Sá
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              "time": "2024-06-05T00:00:00.000Z",
              "value": "Disclosed"
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          ],
          "title": "Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance \u2013 Countdown \u0026 Clock \u003c= 2.7.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection"
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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