Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 10, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-14555
CVE-2025-14555
Description
The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpdevart_countdown' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
1- Range: <=2.7.7
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
5- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-countdown/trunk/includes/front_end.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-countdown/trunk/includes/front_end.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-countdown/trunk/includes/front_end.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3425959/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee84c720-7997-4c09-a2f9-5e1a28bd1100nvd
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