# CVE-2025-24715: WordPress Counter Box Plugin <= 2.0.5 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Settings Change vulnerability

> An attacker can trick authenticated users into changing Counter Box plugin settings via a CSRF attack, requiring a plugin update.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4384-wg24-m29h

## What is CVE-2025-24715?

CVE-2025-24715 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Counter Box, published on 24 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wow-Company Counter Box counter-box allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Counter Box: from n/a through <= 2.0.5.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24715?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wow-Company Counter Box.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-24715?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24715 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24715 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24715 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Wow-Company Counter Box

- [CVE-2022-2245](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2245/): Counter Box < 1.2.1 - Arbitrary Counter Activation/Deactivation via CSRF (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-29446](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29446/): WordPress Counter Box plugin <= 1.1.1 - Authenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2024-3481](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3481/): Counter Box < 1.2.4 - Counter Deletion via CSRF (medium 5.2)
- [CVE-2024-13901](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13901/): Cross-site scripting in Counter Box – Add Countdowns, Timers & Dynamic Counters to WordPress (medium 4.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24715 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24715 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Counter Box, published on 24 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24715 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Wow-Company Counter Box. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24715/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24715/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24715
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24715
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24715

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24715/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.