CVE-2024-10631: countdown timer for wordpress block editor vulnerability

The Countdown Timer for WordPress Block Editor WordPress plugin through 1.0.5 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
CVE-2024-10631CVSS 6.5CMS

CVE-2024-10631: countdown timer for wordpress block editor vulnerability

The Countdown Timer for WordPress Block Editor WordPress plugin through 1.0.5 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
16.71%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
countdown timer for wordpress block editor

What is known

The Countdown Timer for WordPress Block Editor WordPress plugin through 1.0.5 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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