CVE-2026-3844

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-04-23. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-25174 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 28%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists cloudways Breeze Cache versions up to and including 2.4.4 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

The Breeze Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the 'fetch_gravatar_from_remote' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible. The vulnerability can only be exploited if "Host Files Locally - Gravatars" is enabled, which is disabled by default.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch for a fix.
EPSS PROB
28%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
28% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-29). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch for a fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

April 23, 2026

Last Modified

April 23, 2026

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 22× in last 7d / 68× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 313 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 214 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-30 06:16 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-30 06:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 98th percentile
  4. 2026-10-29 05:48 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-29 05:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 98th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-28 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 98th percentile
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  11. 2026-10-27 04:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 98th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-26 00:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 28% · 98th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-24 23:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
  20. 2026-10-23 23:11 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-23 23:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-22 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-21 22:10 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-21 22:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
  4. 2026-10-20 21:39 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-20 21:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
  7. 2026-10-19 21:07 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-19 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
  10. 2026-10-18 19:59 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-18 19:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
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  15. 2026-10-17 19:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-16 18:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-15 16:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-14 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
  24. 2026-10-14 10:17 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-14 10:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
  27. 2026-10-13 08:44 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-13 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  29. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.8% · 89th percentile
  30. 2026-10-12 16:10 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-12 08:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c529-q7mw-hq6j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits

(5 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (4 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.

  • GitHub PoCAnggaTechI/CVE-2026-3844
    Published Aug 8, 2026

    CVE-2026-3844 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload to RCE in Breeze Cache (WordPress). CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL. Mass scanner + auto shell injector with multi-threading.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoChalilkirazkaya/CVE-2026-3844
    Published Apr 30, 2026

    CVE-2026-3844 — Breeze Cache Plugin RCE Exploit

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2026/CVE-2026-3844.yaml
    Published Apr 30, 2026

    Breeze <= 2.4.4 - Arbitrary File Upload

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCdinosn/CVE-2026-3844
    Published Apr 25, 2026

    CVE-2026-3844: Breeze Cache <= 2.4.4 Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload to RCE (CVSS 9.8)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCtausifzaman/CVE-2026-3844
    Published Apr 24, 2026

    PoC exploit for CVE-2026-3844, a critical unauthenticated file upload vulnerability in the WordPress Breeze plugin leading to RCE.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-3844?
CVE-2026-3844 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 23, 2026. The Breeze Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the 'fetchgravatarfrom_remote' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-3844 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-3844 was published on April 23, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-3844 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-3844 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 28% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-3844?
CVE-2026-3844 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-3844?
No fix for CVE-2026-3844 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch for a fix. The CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists cloudways Breeze Cache versions up to and including 2.4.4 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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