Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers: Cross-site request forgery
Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 28, 2021
This CVE was published Sep 28, 2021 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the save_theme function found in the ~/includes/admin/coundown_theme_page.php file due to a missing nonce check which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.5.7.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P