PT-2025-43056 · WordPress · Sm Countdown Widget

Published 2025-10-22 · Updated 2025-10-22 · CVE-2025-11880

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SM CountDown Widget versions prior to 1.3

Description The SM CountDown Widget plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the plugin’s smcountdown shortcode. This is due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the affected page.

Recommendations Update to a version greater than 1.2.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-11880

Affected Products

Sm Countdown Widget

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11880 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/35468 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smcountdown/tags/1.2/smcountdown-widget.php#L67 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/53419b7c-e1a5-46ef-9110-c88f43b7df1d?source=cve · Note