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CVE-2026-116852critical9.1

WordPress Widget Options plugin <= 4.2.5 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability

Impact

The WordPress Widget Options plugin, version 4.2.5 and earlier, has a code injection weakness. An author can potentially exploit this. The impact is uncertain.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

What to do

Update to 4.2.6 or a higher version.

Patchstack guidance

Affected packages

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Affected products

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Marketing Fire · Patchstack

Widget Options

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affected

n/a → through 4.2.5

custom versions

From 4.2.6: unaffected

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Original source description

Author Remote Code Execution (RCE) in Widget Options <= 4.2.5 versions.

Inside the record

Evidence available

Package identity · not supplied
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Additional publishers

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Original records

CVE-2026-116852

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Underlying weaknesses

The source’s classification of what caused the vulnerability.

CWE-94 ↗

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Patchstack

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Contributing organizations · 2
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Assigning organization

2026-10-30
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-30

What changed

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-116852

    Observed 2026-10-30T22:47:48.680Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T22:15:55.746Z

    Prioritization updated

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  {
    "source": "CISA-ADP",
    "type": "SSVC",
    "role": "CISA Coordinator",
    "timestamp": "2026-10-30T21:21:08.723566Z",
    "decisions": [
      {
        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
      },
      {
        "name": "Automatable",
        "value": "no"
      },
      {
        "name": "Technical Impact",
        "value": "total"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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References

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patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/widget-options/vulnerability/wordpress-widget-options-plugin-4-2-5-remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability
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