CVE-2025-14555
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
10/01/2026
Last modified:
10/01/2026
Description
The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpdevart_countdown' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-countdown/trunk/includes/front_end.php#L167
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-countdown/trunk/includes/front_end.php#L30
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-countdown/trunk/includes/front_end.php#L48
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3425959/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee84c720-7997-4c09-a2f9-5e1a28bd1100?source=cve



