Ninja Countdown <= 1.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Countdown Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12665
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 10, 2025
Last Updated November 11, 2025
Researcher Ivan Cese
Description

The Ninja Countdown | Fastest Countdown Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ninja_countdown_admin_ajax' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary countdowns.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ninja-countdown (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.0
Patched Version
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