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Description

The Widget Context plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_widget_context_settings function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify widget visibility context settings stored in the WordPress options table via a forged POST request to /wp-admin/widgets.php via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-01 | Published 2026-05-22 | Updated 2026-05-23 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-05-08:Vendor Notified
2026-05-21:Disclosed

Credits

darkestmode finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-4bf9-46ee-9a6d-35eab7ef11a1?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...xt/trunk/src/WidgetContext.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gs/1.3.3/src/WidgetContext.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...xt/trunk/src/WidgetContext.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gs/1.3.3/src/WidgetContext.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...xt/trunk/src/WidgetContext.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gs/1.3.3/src/WidgetContext.php

github.com/kasparsd/widget-context-wporg/pull/73

cve.org (CVE-2026-7615)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-7615)

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