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TI-2025-01995 Aliases CVE-2025-2270GHSA-842m-396f-hgpg

Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock <= 2.8.9.1 - Unauthenticated Limited Local File Inclusion

Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01273 70th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
adamskaatCountdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clockup to 2.8.9.1—No fix listedCNA
  • Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock Vendoradamskaat Affected up to 2.8.9.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-2270
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-842m-396f-hgpg

References

Other 2

  • TI-2025-22111 WordPress Countdown & Clock plugin <=2.8.8 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2025-17418 WordPress Scroll Top plugin <= 1.3.3 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
  • TI-2024-33945 WordPress Countdown & Clock plugin <= 3.0.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
  • TI-2024-08525 Read more By Adam <= 1.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Read More Button Deletion CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3

Sources

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