Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2022-4954

Description

The Waiting: One-click countdowns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Countdown name in versions up to, and including, 0.6.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

Plugin/Waiting
cpe:2.3:a:plugin:waiting:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=0.6.2

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ef5b0de-0b8b-4286-86ea-6dca0dbc1a52nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/waiting/trunk/waiting.phpnvdProduct

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