Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.8.9.1 - Unauthenticated Limited Local File Inclusion

8.1
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2025-2270
CVSS 8.1 (High)
Publicly Published April 3, 2025
Last Updated April 4, 2025
Researcher mikemyers

Description

The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9.1 via the createCdObj function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute files with the specific filenames on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in some cases.

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Vulnerability Details for Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug countdown-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.9.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.9.1
Patched Version
  • 2.9.0

Recent vulnerabilities in Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Countdown & Clock <= 2.8.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution CVE-2025-30841 8.8 astra.r3verii April 1, 2025
2 Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.9.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-50516 4.4 Hwang Se-yeon October 28, 2024
3 Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.7.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2024-2017 5.4 Lucio Sá June 5, 2024
4 Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.9.5 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting 5.5 May 25, 2022
5 Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Pro Features Lock Bypass CVE-2022-29423 3.8 R3N0 April 28, 2022
6 Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-29422 4.8 R3N0 April 28, 2022
7 Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-29421 6.1 R3N0 April 28, 2022
8 Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-29420 5.5 Jeong Wonjun April 28, 2022
9 Countdown & Clock <= 2.2.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-0601 6.1 Ran Crane February 21, 2022

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