CVE-2026-64638

WordPress is vulnerable to a pre-auth reflected XSS vulnerability on the login screen. Via a specially crafted malicious third-party website hosted by an attacker, it is possible for this to be escalated to an RCE vulnerability with conditions outside of the attackers control. This requires successful social engineering of and explicit interaction by the target victim. This issue affects all versions of WordPress. Version 7.0.3 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. Discovered and responsibly disclosed by [the team at pwn.ai](https://pwn.ai/).

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://hackerone.com/reports/3877102
https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-0-3-release/

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-07 18:17

Updated : 2026-09-03 17:02

NVD link : CVE-2026-64638

Mitre link : CVE-2026-64638

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-64638

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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