CVE-2026-97348
The SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.74.3 via the get_instance_css function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. The widget's normal update()/sanitize_field_input() pipeline — which would reject non-hex color values — is bypassed entirely because the [siteorigin_widget] shortcode handler calls $the_widget->widget() directly on the attacker-supplied decoded JSON instance.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium
- Status
- Deferred - security@wordfence.com
- Published
- 2026-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-13
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Affected products
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/500f18e6-14ca-4632-9317-5886fa2bb763?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/so-widgets-bundle/tags/1.74.3/base/siteorigin-widget.class.php#L1148
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/so-widgets-bundle/tags/1.74.3/base/inc/shortcode.php#L31
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/so-widgets-bundle/tags/1.74.3/base/inc/shortcode.php#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/so-widgets-bundle/tags/1.74.3/base/siteorigin-widget.class.php#L1117
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/so-widgets-bundle/tags/1.74.3/base/siteorigin-widget.class.php#L1134
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/so-widgets-bundle/tags/1.74.3/base/siteorigin-widget.class.php#L1006
- https://github.com/siteorigin/so-widgets-bundle/compare/540f834469fe...bf80892709fb
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3724795/so-widgets-bundle/trunk/base/siteorigin-widget.class.php
