Counter Box: Add Engaging Countdowns, Timers & Counters to Your WordPress Site <= 2.0.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting

4.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-13901
CVSS 4.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 28, 2025
Last Updated March 1, 2025
Researcher Nguyen Khanh Hao

Description

The Counter Box: Add Engaging Countdowns, Timers & Counters to Your WordPress Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘content’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

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Vulnerability Details for Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug counter-box (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.0.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.6
Patched Version
  • 2.0.7

Recent vulnerabilities in Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Counter Box <= 2.0.13 - Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via Import CVE-2026-12115 6.6 Duc Long June 16, 2026
2 Counter Box <= 2.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2025-24715 4.3 Khang Duong January 24, 2025
3 Counter Box – WordPress plugin for countdown, timer, counter <= 1.2.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2024-3481 4.3 Bob Matyas April 11, 2024
4 Multiple Wow-Company Plugins (Various Versions) -- Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'page' parameter CVE-2023-2362 6.1 Erwan LR May 22, 2023
5 Counter Box <= 1.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2022-2245 8.8 Raad Haddad July 8, 2022
6 Counter Box – WordPress plugin for countdown, timer, counter <= 1.2 - SQL Injection 7.2 July 8, 2022
7 Counter Box <= 1.1.1 - Authenticated Local File Inclusion CVE-2022-29446 6.8 0xB9 May 16, 2022

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