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CVE-2026-452938.6HighCWE-95

WordPress Coding Standards (WordPressCS) contains an arbitrary code execution vulnerability

WordPress · WordPress-Coding-Standards

Not in CISA KEV
0.3%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
16th percentile
050100

Higher than 16% of scored CVEs

8.6HighCVSS 3.1
LowHigh

DescriptionNVD

WordPress Coding Standards is a set of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) that enforce WordPress coding conventions. From 0.14.1 until 3.4.1, the WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters sniff (active in the WordPress and WordPress-Extra rulesets) reconstructed the $ver argument passed to functions such as wp_enqueue_script() and ran it through eval() inside its is_falsy() method, so a maliciously crafted argument such as 'system'('id') would execute during a scan; as a result, running PHPCS with WordPressCS over untrusted PHP (for example a CI pipeline that lints pull requests, or a developer reviewing third-party code) could lead to arbitrary command execution on the scanning host. The WordPress-Core and WordPress-Docs rulesets are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 3.4.1.

Coverage1 article · 1 outlet

First in our coverage: SecurityOnline, 29 Jul.

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