CVE-2024-12589
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Mar 12, 2025
Updated: Apr 2, 2025
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2024-12589 is a stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability affecting the Finale Lite – Sales Countdown Timer & Discount plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 2.19.0, allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the countdown timer feature. Successful exploitation results in the execution of injected scripts whenever a user accesses an affected page.
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