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Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock, CVE-2025-2270

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-2270

Published on
Apr 04, 2025
Research Description
The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9.1 via the createCdObj function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute files with the specific filenames on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in some cases.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.9.0.
Status
vulnerable