CVE•Published 2026-08-17•Modified 2026-09-03•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-65640
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
78
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 22% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-17
Modified 2026-09-03
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-65640Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-65640Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-65640Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-65640GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-65640" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-65640 on GitHub.