CVE-2026-65640
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 8.8 High
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis - support@hackerone.com
- Published
- 2026-08-17
- Last modified
- 2026-08-18
- Weaknesses
- CWE-434
Affected products
References
- https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-0-4-release/