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CVE-2025-8445: Countdown Timer for Elementor <= 1.3.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'countdown_label'

• 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: 2025-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Countdown Timer for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'countdown_label' Parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.9 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

• shaikhaezaz80 Countdown Timer for Elementor: through 1.3.9

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-timer-for-elementor/trunk/widgets/countdown-timer-widget.php#L513
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ddcb9e7-506d-408d-812b-b95610b636f1?source=cve

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