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CVE-2026-65640

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2026-08-17 Modified: 2026-08-18

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-434

References