CVE-2024-2017 Missing authorization in Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock

What is CVE-2024-2017?

CVE-2024-2017 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in adamskaat Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock, published on 6 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2017?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Edmonsoft Countdown Builder.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2017?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2017 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-2017 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2017 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in adamskaat Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock

• CVE-2022-29420 WordPress Countdown & Clock plugin <= 2.3.2 - Auth. Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability Medium 5.9
• CVE-2022-29422 Cross-site scripting in Countdown & Clock (WordPress plugin) Medium 4.8
• CVE-2022-29421 WordPress Countdown & Clock plugin <= 2.3.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability Medium 4.7
• CVE-2022-29423 WordPress Countdown & Clock plugin <= 2.3.2 - Pro Features Lock Bypass vulnerability Low 3.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-pcmg-m577-c53m.