CVE-2024-13901 Cross-site scripting in Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress
Administrators can inject scripts via the content parameter, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML installations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-13901?
CVE-2024-13901 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpcalc Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress, published on 1 Mar 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Counter Box: Add Engaging Countdowns, Timers & Counters to Your WordPress Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘content’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13901?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wow-Company Counter Box.
How do I fix CVE-2024-13901?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13901 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-13901 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13901 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in wpcalc Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress
- CVE-2022-2245 Counter Box < 1.2.1 - Arbitrary Counter Activation/Deactivation via CSRF
- CVE-2022-29446 WordPress Counter Box plugin <= 1.1.1 - Authenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability
- CVE-2025-24715 WordPress Counter Box Plugin <= 2.0.5 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Settings Change vulnerability
- CVE-2024-3481 Counter Box < 1.2.4 - Counter Deletion via CSRF
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x5gg-v967-8wc4.