PT-2025-9153 · WordPress · The Counter Box

Nguyen Khanh Hao · Published 2025-03-01 · Updated 2025-05-26 · CVE-2024-13901

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Counter Box: Add Engaging Countdowns, Timers & Counters to Your WordPress Site plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.0.6

Description The issue is related to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, specifically via the content parameter. This allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level access to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages, which will execute when a user accesses an injected page. The issue only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered html has been disabled.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 2.0.6, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue to prevent DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-13901

Affected Products

The Counter Box

References · 11

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3247696 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13901 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/cybercronai/status/1896138825123918261 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/251b17a7-781f-4f17-af90-9a6fbae69243?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/123582 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/19208 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/112967 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/counter-box/trunk/admin/assets/js/5.builder.js#L10 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1895733706725195873 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1895982000458387626 · Twitter Post