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CVE-2024-10669: Countdown Timer block – Display the event's date into a timer. <= 1.2.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Disclosure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The Countdown Timer block – Display the event&#039;s date into a timer. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.4 via the [ctb] shortcode due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

Affected products

• bplugins Countdown Timer Block – Animated Countdown for Events or Launches: through 1.2.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/countdown-time/tags/1.2.4&new_path=/countdown-time/tags/1.2.5&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/24ccc2cb-3c5d-48cd-bc40-2717145b4912?source=cve

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