Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.8.9.1 - Unauthenticated Limited Local File Inclusion

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2025-2270
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published April 3, 2025
Last Updated April 4, 2025
Researcher mikemyers
Description

The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9.1 via the createCdObj function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute files with the specific filenames on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in some cases.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug countdown-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.9.1
Patched Version
  • 2.9.0
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