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.

CVSS v3.0

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

1.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 79th percentile

Nuclei

low

Published

2026-08-17

Updated

2026-08-18

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• jobusa755-a11y/CVE-2026-65640-0★ · 2026-08-13

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2026/CVE-2026-65640-wordpress-3…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2026-6564
• CVE-2026-65643
• CVE-2026-6563
• CVE-2026-65650
• CVE-2026-6562
• CVE-2026-6568