WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Widget Context < 1.4.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update via 'wl' Parameter

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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.4.0

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
darkmode
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-05-21 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-05-21 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-22 (about 3 months ago)

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