Editor crashes on compile with no warning when trying to access information from a "Slot as Canvas Slot" node on tick that has not been set yet by begin play

If a user creates a widget variable that is set on begin play and then tries to get information from that widget via the "Slot as Canvas Slot" node on tick the editor will crash. This appears to happen because the tick fires off before the begin play has a chance to set the widget variable.

1. Open the editor
2. Create a new widget blueprint
3. Add an image to the designer tab of the widget
4. Compile and save
5. Open the player controller
6. Create the blueprint in the attached image
7. Compile
8. Notice the editor crashes

Expected: The editor does not crash and instead throws an error
Result: The editor crashes

MachineId:E74C21034048BDD873CC6C9A3913CF6C
EpicAccountId:ccbf39de6f9245c0aa23f8e57cc8a566

Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not available)

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UE4Editor_UMG!UWidgetLayoutLibrary::execSlotAsCanvasSlot() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\umg\public\blueprint\widgetlayoutlibrary.h:10]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UFunction::Invoke() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\class.cpp:4125]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::CallFunction() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\scriptcore.cpp:463]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::ProcessContextOpcode() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\scriptcore.cpp:1552]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::execLetObj() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\scriptcore.cpp:1391]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::ProcessInternal() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\scriptcore.cpp:673]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::CallFunction() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\scriptcore.cpp:587]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::ProcessInternal() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\scriptcore.cpp:673]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UFunction::Invoke() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\class.cpp:4125]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::ProcessEvent() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\scriptcore.cpp:1023]
UE4Editor_Engine!AActor::ProcessEvent() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\actor.cpp:520]
UE4Editor_Engine!AActor::ReceiveTick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\intermediate\build\win64\ue4editor\inc\engine\engine.generated.1.cpp:2267]
UE4Editor_Engine!AActor::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\actor.cpp:682]
UE4Editor_Engine!APlayerController::TickActor() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\playercontroller.cpp:3880]
UE4Editor_Engine!FActorTickFunction::ExecuteTick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\actor.cpp:105]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTickTaskSequencer::FTickFunctionTask::DoTask() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\ticktaskmanager.cpp:113]
UE4Editor_Engine!TGraphTask<FTickTaskSequencer::FTickFunctionTask>::ExecuteTask() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\core\public\async\taskgraphinterfaces.h:753]
UE4Editor_Core!FTaskThread::ProcessTasks() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\core\private\async\taskgraph.cpp:430]
UE4Editor_Core!FTaskThread::ProcessTasksUntilQuit() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\core\private\async\taskgraph.cpp:273]
UE4Editor_Core!FTaskGraphImplementation::WaitUntilTasksComplete() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\core\private\async\taskgraph.cpp:991]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTaskGraphInterface::WaitUntilTaskCompletes() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\core\public\async\taskgraphinterfaces.h:192]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTickTaskSequencer::ReleaseTickGroup() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\ticktaskmanager.cpp:232]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTickTaskManager::RunTickGroup() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\ticktaskmanager.cpp:643]
UE4Editor_Engine!UWorld::RunTickGroup() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\leveltick.cpp:697]
UE4Editor_Engine!UWorld::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\leveltick.cpp:1181]
UE4Editor_Kismet!FSCSEditorViewportClient::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\editor\kismet\private\scseditorviewportclient.cpp:202]
UE4Editor_UnrealEd!UEditorEngine::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\editorengine.cpp:1399]
UE4Editor_UnrealEd!UUnrealEdEngine::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\unrealedengine.cpp:366]
UE4Editor!FEngineLoop::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launchengineloop.cpp:2359]
UE4Editor!GuardedMain() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launch.cpp:142]
UE4Editor!GuardedMainWrapper() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:126]
UE4Editor!WinMain() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.8\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:200]

I keep getting an Access Violation Error when I try to open up my player controller blueprint

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