CVE-2026-116403 WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.7.1 - Race Condition vulnerability
Medium 5.9
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-116403 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2026-116403 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 26 Oct 2026.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-116403 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-116403/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-116403/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-116403?
CVE-2026-116403 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 26 Oct 2026.
Official description
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads easy-digital-downloads allows Leveraging Race Conditions.This issue affects Easy Digital Downloads: from n/a through 3.7.1.
Weakness: CWE-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-116403?
How do I fix CVE-2026-116403?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-116403 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-116403 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-116403 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pwf8-p9pr-c446.