CVE-2025-5929

The The Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘clientId’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-countdown/tags/2.0.1/the-countdown.php#L95	Product
https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-countdown/#developers	Product Release Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/34578df8-661c-4c54-b06c-e1d787ca3c55?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:zourbuth:the_countdown:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

08 Jul 2025, 11:32

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-06-26 03:15

Updated : 2025-07-08 11:32

NVD link : CVE-2025-5929

Mitre link : CVE-2025-5929

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-5929

JSON object : View

Products Affected

zourbuth

the_countdown

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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