---
id: "CVE-2026-116403"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-116403"]
title: "Easy Digital Downloads: race condition in shared resource handling through 3.7.1"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 5.9
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["easy-digital-downloads", "ecommerce", "package", "wordpress"]
not_affected_if: ["default-config"]
published_at: "2026-10-26T17:17:26+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-26T17:31:22+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-26T17:33:21+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116403", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-26T17:31:22+00:00"}]
---

# Easy Digital Downloads: race condition in shared resource handling through 3.7.1

Easy Digital Downloads, a WordPress e-commerce plugin, has a race condition in how it handles a shared resource, per the NVD entry. The sources do not say what an attacker gets beyond the race, so the practical impact is unknown.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## How to check

- Check the installed Easy Digital Downloads version in the WordPress admin plugins list or with `wp plugin get easy-digital-downloads --field=version`
- unknown for anything more specific, since the sources do not say which feature or endpoint is affected

## Fix

- Update Easy Digital Downloads to a version later than `3.7.1`
- unknown for the exact fixed version, since the sources do not name it

## Timeline

- 2026-10-26T17:31:22+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116403

## From the sources

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.

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