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CVE-2025-12668: WP Count Down Timer <= 1.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-11 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Count Down Timer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple parameters of the 'wp_countdown_timer' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 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.

Affected products

• sitedin WP Count Down Timer: through 1.0.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-count-down-timer/tags/1.0.1/wp-count-down-timer.php#L69
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-count-down-timer/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bcbcad73-ce2a-4eb2-9b7f-91d47a93e16d?source=cve

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