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CVE-2026-65640

high CVSS 8.8 EPSS 1.9%

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.

Versions it affects

Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-65640 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
High
CVSS base score
8.8 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-434
Published
2026-08-17

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