CVE-2024-2017 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00175.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Edmonsoft	Countdown Builder

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:edmonsoft:countdown_builder:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L51
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L92
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096150/
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097588/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d8fab229-cd6b-45a3-9e80-a03a1704ad3e?source=cve

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00164}`	epss `{'score': 0.00175}`

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00128}`	epss `{'score': 0.00164}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-06-06T02:38:13.733Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:56:22.545Z

Reserved: 2024-02-29T14:59:22.558Z

Link: CVE-2024-2017

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:56:22.545Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-06T03:15:08.847

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:08:49.250

Link: CVE-2024-2017

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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