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CVE-2024-8667: HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce <= 2.10.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Publication

• 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: 2024-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication due to a missing capability check on the activateCampaign() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to publish arbitrary posts like ones they have submitted for review, or a site administrator has in draft.

Affected products

• nlemsieh HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce: through 2.10.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hurrytimer/trunk/includes/Admin.php#L568
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3173213/hurrytimer/trunk/includes/Admin.php?contextall=1
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a8eda88-c45a-4867-b427-d63b586e6de3?source=cve

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