Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-58472
GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the html_quote_string() function in src/convert.c that allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding. A server-supplied HTML attribute causes a signed integer counter to overflow during output size accumulation, resulting in an undersized heap allocation and subsequent heap buffer overflow during the copy phase.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 12.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.9
Products affected by CVE-2026-58472
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.11.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.11.3
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.11.4
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.11.4-1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.3
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.4
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.16.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.16.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.16.3
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.17.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.19.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.19.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.19.3
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.19.4
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.19.5
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.20.1
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