Responsive Coming Soon Landing Page / Holding Page for WordPress <= 3.0 - Authenticated (Susbcriber+) Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-29004
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 8, 2025
Last Updated July 17, 2025
Researcher Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh
Description

The wordpress-flat-countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wordpress-flat-countdown (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0
Patched Version
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