CVE-2024-2017: Edmonsoft Countdown Builder

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the conditionsRow and switchCountdown functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject PHP Objects and modify the status of countdowns.

Affected products

• Edmonsoft Countdown Builder: before 2.7.8.1 (fixed in 2.7.8.1)

Published 2024-06-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.