Vulnerability CVE-2024-2017
Published: 2024-06-06

Description:
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.

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d8fab229-cd6b-45a3-9e80-a03a1704ad3e?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L92
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L51
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097588/
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096150/
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