Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timer <= 1.5.7 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-34636
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f825-g8w3-7mxh
- 2026-11-03 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
More wpdevart Countdown And Countup, Woocommerce Sales Timer vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-25704 WordPress Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timer Plugin <= 1.8.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
Sources
- CVE-2021-34636 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-34636 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f825-g8w3-7mxh · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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