Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown, CVE-2025-14555
- CVE, Research URL
- Application
- Published on
- Jan 10, 2026
- Research 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.
- Affected versions
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max 2.7.8.
- Status
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vulnerable