Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8445

Description

The Countdown Timer for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'countdown_label' Parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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

WordPress/Countdown Timer For Elementorinferred2 versions
<=1.3.9+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=1.3.9
- (no CPE)range: <=1.3.9
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/countdown-timer-for-elementor

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-timer-for-elementor/trunk/widgets/countdown-timer-widget.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ddcb9e7-506d-408d-812b-b95610b636f1nvd

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