CVE-2021-34636 (GCVE-0-2021-34636)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-28 13:53 – Updated: 2025-03-31 18:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timer <= 1.5.7 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the save_theme function found in the ~/includes/admin/coundown_theme_page.php file due to a missing nonce check which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.5.7.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-31 18:12 UTC
CWE
- CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisorie… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2605… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WpDevArt | Countdown and CountUp, WooCommerce Sales Timers |
Affected:
1.5.7 , ≤ 1.5.7
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2021-09-27 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.