CVE-2026-65640

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Aug 17, 2026
Updated: Aug 18, 2026
Reserved: Jul 22, 2026

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.8 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	hackerone

Weaknesses

CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WordPressWordPress	before 7.0.4Affected

References

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

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