Vulnerabilities and security researches forsmcountdown smcountdown

Nov 14, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-11880
Home page URL: Security reports for SM CountDown Widget
Application: SM CountDown Widget
Date: Oct 22, 2025
Research Description: The SM CountDown Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's smcountdown shortcode in versions less than, or equal to, 1.2 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.
Affected versions: max 1.2.
Status: vulnerable