CVE-2026-16985: Unknown Squeeze

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Squeeze WordPress plugin before 1.7.12 does not validate the file type or extension of the per-size image data written by one of its attachment-update actions, allowing users with the upload_files capability (Author and above) to write an executable PHP file into the uploads directory and achieve remote code execution.

Affected products

• Unknown Squeeze: before 1.7.12 (fixed in 1.7.12)

Published 2026-08-10. Last modified 2026-08-26.