Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers <= 1.5.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-34636
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published September 27, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Xu-Liang Liao

Description

The Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the save_theme function found in the ~/includes/admin/coundown_theme_page.php file due to a missing nonce check which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.5.7.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug countdown-wpdevart-extended (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.5.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.7
Patched Version
  • 1.5.8

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