CVE-2024-8667: Nlemsieh Hurrytimer – An Scarcity And Urgency Countdown Timer For WordPress & Woocommerce

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication due to a missing capability check on the activateCampaign() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to publish arbitrary posts like ones they have submitted for review, or a site administrator has in draft.

Affected products

• Nlemsieh Hurrytimer – An Scarcity And Urgency Countdown Timer For WordPress & Woocommerce: up to and including 2.10.0

Published 2024-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.