CVE-2026-65640

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
WordPressWordPress0 < 7.0.4affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-434: CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

References