CVE-2026-65640 PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone
Reserved: 22.07.2026 Published: 17.08.2026 Updated: 17.08.2026

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.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor WordPress
Product WordPress
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 7.0.4 (excl.)

Credits

  • Pwn.ai finder

References

Problem Types

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