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CVE-2022-0601: Countdown & Clock < 2.2.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance WordPress plugin before 2.2.9 does not sanitize and escape the post parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.

Affected products

• Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock: before 2.2.9 — fixed in 2.2.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock 2.2.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2679245
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ec62eae-2072-4098-8f77-b22d61a89cbf
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2679245
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ec62eae-2072-4098-8f77-b22d61a89cbf

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