CVE-2026-119977

WordPress WordPress Core contains a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server during the upgrade window. This is due to predictable, web-accessible staging paths used during full-package core upgrades.

WordPress; WordPress Core. Product-level identification only; no affected-version conclusion is available from this field.

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