# CVE-2026-116615: Widget Options remote code injection in post\_content handling

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-124976
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Attention: Reference. No open trigger. (last checked 2026-11-13)
- Published: 2026-11-13 · Updated: 2026-11-13

CVE-2026-116615 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 8.8 (high) and affects Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

The Widget Options plugin for WordPress has a code injection flaw in its `post_content` handling that lets a remote attacker with low-privilege login inject PHP code that runs on every front-end page view, including for unauthenticated visitors. On a default installation, the attacker needs Author-level access or higher, though a Contributor can also exploit it once an administrator or editor publishes their submission.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- marketingfire Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets: through 4.2.6.1

## Description

The Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.6.1 via the `post_content` parameter. This is due to asymmetric parsing between the save-time strip filter (`widgetopts_strip_logic_from_blocks()`) and the render-time parser (`blockopts_filter_before_display()`): embedding an inner `<!--start_widgetopts` literal inside a JSON key causes the write-side `json_decode` to see a non-`class` key and skip stripping — persisting the payload verbatim to the database — while the render-side `str_replace` reconstitutes the key to `class`, feeding the attacker-controlled `logic` value directly into `@eval`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject PHP expressions that execute on every front-end page view, enabling boolean-oracle exfiltration of WordPress site configuration data — including admin email address, default role, and arbitrary `get_option`, `get_user_meta`, and `get_post_meta` values — via the plugin's allowlisted-function sandbox, which escalates to unrestricted code execution if any installed plugin extends the `widgetopts_allowed_php_functions` filter. Contributors can also exploit this vulnerability when their submitted post is later published by an administrator; notably, the injected payload executes for all site visitors, including unauthenticated users, because a trust-flag mechanism introduced in version 4.2.6 causes `widgetopts_safe_eval_trusted()` to bypass its non-admin short-circuit at every legacy render callsite. Exploitation by attackers with contributor-level access and above requires that an administrator (or editor) later publishes the contributor's submission. On a default installation, where that is not configured, the vulnerability requires attackers with author-level access and above.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on marketingfire Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, run the stack.check operation (execute) on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Check your systems with an agent

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Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-116615 (Widget Options <= 4.2.6.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Code Injection via 'post_content' Parameter), using the cve.now data below.

Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.

What cve.now has for CVE-2026-116615 (entry last updated 2026-11-13):
Affected:
- marketingfire Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets: through 4.2.6.1
Fixed versions: none listed yet.
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-116615 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-116615 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.

How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.

Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3f5e4431-2789-47c8-81ce-e9f67454accc?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php#L496
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php#L331
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php#L377
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/extras.php#L792
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.7/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.

Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action.

Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-116615
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-116615 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-116615

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-116615?

Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets: through 4.2.6.1.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-116615

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## References

### CVE record

Establishes: The identifier and description.

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116615
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116615

### Other links

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3f5e4431-2789-47c8-81ce-e9f67454accc?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php#L496
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php#L331
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php#L377
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.6.1/includes/extras.php#L792
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-options/tags/4.2.7/includes/widgets/gutenberg/gutenberg-toolbar.php

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