CVE-2026-40772

CRITICALPre-NVD 10.010.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 10.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-06-15. The CNA's CVSS baseline 10.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
10.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 10.0Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

Update the WordPress GeekyBot Plugin to the latest available version (at least 1.2.3) (from the CVE record's solution, Patchstack) — apply it.

Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload in GeekyBot <= 1.2.2 versions.

CVSS v3
10.0
EG Score
10.0CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity100% × 45%
The EG Score, 10.0 of 10.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
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: Update the WordPress GeekyBot Plugin to the latest available version (at least 1.2.3) (from the CVE record's solution, Patchstack). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
42nd
KEV
Not listed

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

Update the WordPress GeekyBot Plugin to the latest available version (at least 1.2.3) (from the CVE record's solution, Patchstack). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

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

June 15, 2026

Last Modified

June 16, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 11, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record's solution (Patchstack).
Web page

Arbitrary File Upload in WordPress GeekyBot Plugin - Patchstack

https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/geeky-bot/vulnerability/wordpress-geekybot-plugin-1-2-2-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-40772(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 30× 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 100 of 445 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 345 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  2. 2026-10-13 08:46 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-13 08:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  4. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  5. 2026-10-12 16:09 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-12 08:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  7. 2026-10-11 19:51 UTCEG score recompute
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  10. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
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  1. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
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  5. 2026-09-14 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  6. 2026-09-14 03:38 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-14 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  8. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
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  20. 2026-08-30 22:55 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-08-30 22:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  22. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
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  28. 2026-08-25 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  30. 2026-08-24 23:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  31. 2026-08-23 21:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  35. 2026-08-23 09:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  38. 2026-08-21 23:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  44. 2026-08-21 01:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  46. 2026-08-20 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  50. 2026-08-20 08:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  53. 2026-08-19 13:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  56. 2026-08-17 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  58. 2026-08-17 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  61. 2026-08-16 22:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  63. 2026-08-16 15:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  65. 2026-08-16 11:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  68. 2026-08-16 03:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jcp9-7cp3-7w4x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-40772?
CVE-2026-40772 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 15, 2026. Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload in GeekyBot <= 1.2.2 versions.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-40772 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-40772 was published on June 15, 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 June 16, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-40772 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-40772 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (42nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-40772?
CVE-2026-40772 has a CVSS base score of 10.0 (the CNA's own assessment, by patchstack; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-40772?
The CVE record's solution for CVE-2026-40772, written by its CNA Patchstack, names the fix: "Update the WordPress GeekyBot Plugin to the latest available version (at least 1.2.3)." The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-40772 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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