CVE-2026-5032: W3 Total Cache <= 2.9.3 - Unauthenticated Security Token Exposure via User-Agent Header
boldgrid · W3 Total Cache
Affected: boldgrid W3 Total Cache · Exploitation: check available, not yet exploited
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DescriptionCVE.org
The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to information exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.3. This is due to the plugin bypassing its entire output buffering and processing pipeline when the request's User-Agent header contains "W3 Total Cache", which causes raw mfunc/mclude dynamic fragment HTML comments — including the W3TC_DYNAMIC_SECURITY security token — to be rendered in the page source. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to discover the value of the W3TC_DYNAMIC_SECURITY constant by sending a crafted User-Agent header to any page that contains developer-placed dynamic fragment tags, granted the site has the fragment caching feature enabled. With the leaked W3TC_DYNAMIC_SECURITY token, an attacker can craft valid mfunc tags to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server, achieving remote code execution.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- boldgrid · W3 Total Cacheup to and including 2.9.3
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- Exploitation
- Check available, not yet exploited. A public nuclei template can confirm it on a system you are authorised to test.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- W3 Total Cache <= 2.9.3 - Unauthenticated Dynamic Security Token Disclosure · nuclei template in projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates
- Vendor
- boldgrid
- Published
- April 2026
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References
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CVE recordcve.org
- Weakness CWE-200cwe.mitre.org
- wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a65eb62d-847b-4f3awordfence.com
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.9.3/Genplugins.trac.wordpress.org
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3495959/w3-total-cacheplugins.trac.wordpress.org