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Counter Box – WordPress plugin for countdown, timer, counter <= 1.2.3 — Cross-Site Request Forgery

CVE-2024-3481Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.3Update to 1.2.4 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress counter-box

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.3
  2. Patched in1.2.4

Update to 1.2.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.3. Version 1.2.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Bob Matyas.

The Counter Box – WordPress plugin for countdown, timer, counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the counter-box page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete counters via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.0.6Update to 2.0.7
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Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤2.0.5Update to 2.0.6
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≤3.0.3Update to 3.0.4
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High7.2SQL Injection
≤1.2Update to 1.2.1
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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