The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpdevart_countdown' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordpress
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Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpdevart_countdown' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title Countdown Timer - Widget Countdown <= 2.7.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-12T13:10:31.231Z

Reserved: 2025-12-12T02:00:33.513Z

Link: CVE-2025-14555

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-12T13:10:28.207Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-01-10T13:15:48.353

Modified: 2026-01-13T14:03:18.990

Link: CVE-2025-14555

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-01-12T14:36:15Z

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