Responsive Coming Soon Landing Page / Holding Page for WordPress <= 3.0 - Authenticated (Susbcriber+) Privilege Escalation

2025-07-08 00:00

Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected Pluginwordpress-flat-countdown

Affected Version<= 3.0

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2025-29004

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Vulnerability Overview

The wordpress-flat-countdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-29004 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06c3959a-0b25-4534-b7f6-af561c5aad06

CVSS Vector

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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