# CVE-2024-2017: Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock \<= 2.7.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-06 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- adamskaat Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock: through 2.7.8

## Description

The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the conditionsRow and switchCountdown functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject PHP Objects and modify the status of countdowns.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on adamskaat Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d8fab229-cd6b-45a3-9e80-a03a1704ad3e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L92
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/Ajax.php#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097588/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3096150/

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