Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Feb 5, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2026-1654

Description

The Peter's Date Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Affected products

Peter's Date Countdown/Peter's Date Countdownllm-create
Range: <=2.0.0
WordPress/Peter's Date Countdownwp-canonicalize

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/peters-date-countdown/tags/2.0.0/datecountdown.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3450122/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f8f8e436-2679-4ecb-831e-2b22dd99be32nvd

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