The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
CVE-2024-50516 is a medium severity with CVSS 4.4 Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the Plugin Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock. It affects Versions up to 2.9.3 and is listed without a confirmed patched release.
CVE-2024-50516 is tracked for the Plugin Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock as medium severity with CVSS 4.4. The affected range is Versions up to 2.9.3. No fixed release is listed in this feed entry, so operators should monitor the vendor and reference links before accepting the risk.
| Software Type | Plugin |
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| Software Slug |
countdown-builder
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2024-50516 |
| Patched Versions |
No patched versions published.
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 2.9.3
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These internal links group the same WordPress plugin by CVE, issue type, severity, and patch status so operators and search engines can connect the full vulnerability cluster.
Countdown & Clock <= 2.8.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution
Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.8.9.1 - Unauthenticated Limited Local File Inclusion
Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Countdown & Clock <= 2.2.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.7.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection
Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Cross-Site Scripting
Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Pro Features Lock Bypass
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