CVE-2026-65640

8.8 highEPSS 1.9%

High (8.8). EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WordPress is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability via malicious Postscript file upload by an Author level user or higher. Prerequisites: * Imagick and Ghostscript in use on the server * A malicious user with the `upload_files` capability This issue affects all versions of WordPress. Version 7.0.4 has been released, containing a fix for the vulnerability, and as a courtesy to users on older branches the fix has been backported to all branches back to 4.7.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-434
Published: 2026-08-17
Modified: 2026-09-03
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-0-4-release/

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