Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.7.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-2017
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published June 5, 2024
Last Updated June 6, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
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

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug countdown-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.8
Patched Version
  • 2.7.8.1
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