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CVE-2024-8672

CRITICAL 9.9EPSS 45.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 45.4%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The Widget Options – The #1 WordPress Widget & Block Control Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.7 via the display logic functionality that extends several page builders. This is due to the plugin allowing users to supply input that will be passed through eval() without any filtering or capability checks. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to execute code on the server. Special note: We suggested the vendor implement an allowlist of functions and limit the ability to execute commands to just administrators, however, they did not take our advice. We are considering this patched, however, we believe it could still be further hardened and there may be residual risk with how the issue is currently patched.

CVSS 3.1: 9.9 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 45.40% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-94
Source: security@wordfence.com

EPSS trend

EPSS moved from 45.4% on 11 October 2026 to 45.4% on 3 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.