diff --git a/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/inc/widgets.php b/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/inc/widgets.php
index 17e9a7ce1b..2a0cdb4f51 100644
--- a/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/inc/widgets.php
+++ b/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/inc/widgets.php
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ class Twenty_Eleven_Ephemera_Widget extends WP_Widget {
 		}
 
 		ob_start();
-		extract( $args, EXTR_SKIP );
 
 		/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/default-widgets.php */
 		$args['title'] = apply_filters( 'widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] ) ? __( 'Ephemera', 'twentyeleven' ) : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base );
diff --git a/wp-includes/template.php b/wp-includes/template.php
index 3168607412..862b2ccbdf 100644
--- a/wp-includes/template.php
+++ b/wp-includes/template.php
@@ -684,6 +684,15 @@ function load_template( $_template_file, $require_once = true ) {
 	global $posts, $post, $wp_did_header, $wp_query, $wp_rewrite, $wpdb, $wp_version, $wp, $id, $comment, $user_ID;
 
 	if ( is_array( $wp_query->query_vars ) ) {
+		/*
+		 * This use of extract() cannot be removed. There are many possible ways that
+		 * templates could depend on variables that it creates existing, and no way to
+		 * detect and deprecate it.
+		 *
+		 * Passing the EXTR_SKIP flag is the safest option, ensuring globals and
+		 * function variables cannot be overwritten.
+		 */
+		// phpcs:ignore WordPress.PHP.DontExtract.extract_extract
 		extract( $wp_query->query_vars, EXTR_SKIP );
 	}
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 74b007e530..46af311ec4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '5.1-beta1-44568';
+$wp_version = '5.1-beta1-44569';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.