CVE-2026-65640: WordPress

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• WordPress WordPress: before 7.0.4 (fixed in 7.0.4)

Published 2026-08-17. Last modified 2026-09-03.