CVE-2026-16495
The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site…
- Risk score
- 40/100
- CVSS
- 6.4 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 14 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'redirect_url' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-le…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.4 medium
References
Original description
The Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'redirect_url' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1 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.
Last activity 14 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.