Known vulnerabilities in Ad Widget for WordPress

Easily upload ad images and ad code to your sidebar. For those that don't need or want a complicated ad management system.

3Reported vulnerabilities

9.9Highest CVSS score

2.20.1Latest version

2,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Ad Widget for WordPress to 2.12.0 or later. 2 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: September 25, 2025 / Tested up to WordPress: 6.8.8 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
WF-f31bf9cd-fbf3-4f7a-bddd-ddd44c899710	Critical 9.9	—	Before 2.12.0	`2.12.0`	January 1, 2017
CVE-2017-20289	High 7.7	0.9%	2.2.0 up to (but not including) 2.12.0	`2.12.0`	October 22, 2026
CVE-2024-33696	Medium 5.9	0.3%	2.20.0 and earlier	—	April 26, 2024

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.