CVE-2024-2017

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-862: CWE-862 Missing Authorization

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional 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/

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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