diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index d8eba9dafa..4012be5f49 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST = "\
     slang \
     utfcpp \
     wayland \
+    wget \
     xz \
     zlib \
 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4677e300dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")/testenv" || exit 1
+
+WGET_PATH="$(command -v wget)"
+export WGET_PATH
+
+export SSL_TESTS=1
+
+for t in Test-*.py test_*.py; do
+    [ -f "$t" ] || continue
+    python3 -O "$t" > "$t.log" 2>&1
+    ret=$?
+    case $ret in
+        0)  echo "PASS: $t" ;;
+        77) echo "SKIP: $t" ;;
+        *)  echo "FAIL: $t" ;;
+    esac
+    rm -f "$t.log"
+done
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget_1.25.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget_1.25.0.bb
index 00667a1e24..d34696e5b6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget_1.25.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget_1.25.0.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SECTION = "console/network"
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6f65012d1daf98cb09b386cfb68df26b"
 
-inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives pkgconfig
+inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives pkgconfig ptest
 
 DEPENDS += "autoconf-archive-native pod2man-native"
 
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/wget/wget-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://CVE-2026-58472.patch \
            file://CVE-2026-58472-regression.patch \
            file://CVE-2026-58471.patch \
+           file://run-ptest \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "766e48423e79359ea31e41db9e5c289675947a7fcf2efdcedb726ac9d0da3784"
@@ -49,4 +50,22 @@ ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 
 RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "ca-certificates"
 
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv
+    cp -r ${S}/testenv/certs ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv/
+    cp -r ${S}/testenv/conf ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv/
+    cp -r ${S}/testenv/exc ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv/
+    cp -r ${S}/testenv/misc ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv/
+    cp -r ${S}/testenv/server ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv/
+    cp -r ${S}/testenv/test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv/
+    for t in ${S}/testenv/Test-*.py ${S}/testenv/test_*.py; do
+        case $t in
+            */Test-metalink-*) continue ;;
+        esac
+        install -m 0755 $t ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testenv/
+    done
+}
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "python3-core python3-modules"
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "nativesdk"