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Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.3.2 — Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2022-29422Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.3.2Update to 2.3.3 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.8
CVSS
4.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:L Availability
Low
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock countdown-builder

  1. Affected≤ 2.3.2
  2. Patched in2.3.3

Update to 2.3.3 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.3.2. Version 2.3.3 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.3.3, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to R3N0.

Multiple Authenticated (admin+) Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Adam Skaat's Countdown & Clock plugin <= 2.3.2 at WordPress via &ycd-countdown-width, &ycd-progress-height, &ycd-progress-width, &ycd-button-margin-top, &ycd-button-margin-right, &ycd-button-margin-bottom, &ycd-button-margin-left, &ycd-circle-countdown-before-countdown, &ycd-circle-countdown-after-countdown vulnerable parameters.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock

All 10
More vulnerabilities in Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.1Unauthenticated Limited Local File Inclusion
≤2.8.9.1Update to 2.9.0
CVE-2025-2270
High8.8Authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution
≤2.8.8Update to 2.8.9
CVE-2025-30841
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.9.3No patch available
CVE-2024-50516
Medium5.4Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection
≤2.7.8Update to 2.7.8.1
CVE-2024-2017
Medium5.5Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.3.9.5Update to 2.3.9.6
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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