WordPress 7.0.4 Released to Patch High-Severity RCE Vulnerability CVE-2026-65640
The WordPress development team has issued version 7.0.4 to address a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-65640. The flaw affects installations that use the Imagick and Ghostscript image-processing components and grants code execution to users with Author privileges or higher. An attacker can upload a specially crafted PostScript file to trigger arbitrary code execution on the server. The vulnerability received a CVSS v3.0 base score of 8.8 and is rated High severity. Administrators are urged to update immediately, either manually through the dashboard or via automatic background updates. Backported fixes for the 4.7 branch are also in preparation and will be released soon.
Security NEXTAug 13, 2026Translated from Japanese