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Confection 0.4.0 — 0.4.7 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

CVE-2026-115252Published Nov 6, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Affected: 0.4.0 – 0.4.7No patch available

What to do until a fix ships

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Severity

Critical9.8

CVSS

9.8

CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What does this vector mean?

AV:N Attack vector: Network
AC:L Attack complexity: Low
PR:N Privileges required: None
UI:N User interaction: None
S:U Scope: Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality: High
I:H Integrity: High
A:H Availability: High

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

Required access

No account needed

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.4% chance in 30 days36th percentile

CISA KEV

Not listed

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Am I affected?

Confection WordPress Cable confection

Affected0.4.0 – 0.4.7
PatchedNo fix yet

You are affected if you run 0.4.0 – 0.4.7. No fixed version has been released.

Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Confection WordPress Cable.
No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
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Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Naoki Kawahigashi.

The Confection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions 0.4.0 through 0.4.7. This is due to insufficient validation of user supplied input before it is executed. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

Advisorywordfence.com

Timeline

Nov 6, 2026
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Nov 13, 2026
Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record

Vulnerability data: Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE: National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
EPSS: Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.

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