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.
CVE-2026-64638
“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.
This high-severity CVE scores 8.9 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.9% (58th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.9
- EG Score
- 8.9HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 56EG Risk 56/100
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)Severity89% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.9 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.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.9%
- EPSS %ILE
- 58th
- 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 (8.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 8.9 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.a secondary CVSS source · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). 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; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade 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; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (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
August 7, 2026
Last Modified
September 3, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 7, 2026WordPress 7.0.3 release – WordPress News
https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-0-3-release/Affected Packages
(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | 5.7.1+dfsg1-2 ... 7.0.3+dfsg1-1 (42 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | 6.1.1+dfsg1-1 ... 7.1.2+dfsg1-1 (30 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | 6.8.1+dfsg1-1, 6.8.3+dfsg1-0+deb13u1, 6.8.3+dfsg1-1, 6.8.6+dfsg1-0+deb13u1 |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | 6.8.1+dfsg1-1 ... 7.0.2+dfsg1-1 (6 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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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.
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Publicly available exploits
(12 references, 10 shown)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (11 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoC0xlipon/xss2shellPublished Aug 9, 2026
🔥 XSS2Shell — CVE-2026-64638 Scanner & PoC Toolkit
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCeh-amish/CVE-2026-64638-XSS-to-Shell-PoCPublished Aug 9, 2026
- GitHub PoCg0d150ne/XSS2ShellPublished Aug 9, 2026
XSS2Shell ULTIMATE v3.0 is a powerful exploitation tool that chains Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE). This tool exploits CVE-2026-64638 to gain full control over vulnerable WordPress installations.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCHackSpeak/CVE-2026-64638Published Aug 8, 2026
XSS2Shell (CVE-2026-64638) WordPress pre-auth XSS to RCE PoC mirror — WordSec, MIT; for authorized security testing
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCimbas007/CVE-2026-64638-POCPublished Aug 8, 2026
CVE-2026-64638: WordPress Pre-auth XSS → RCE (XSS2Shell) PoC
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoC5yu4n/CVE-2026-64638Published Aug 7, 2026
CVE-2026-64638
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCBoreas37/CVE-2026-64638-PoCPublished Aug 7, 2026
XSS2Shell (CVE-2026-64638) PoC — WordPress pre-auth XSS to RCE chain
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCBoreas37/CVE-2026-64638-PoC-XSS2Shell-Published Aug 7, 2026
XSS2Shell (CVE-2026-64638) WordPress pre-auth XSS to RCE chain — PoC exploit + defensive audit tool + nuclei template
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCLinuxhackingid-official/XSS2Shell-CVE-2026-64638Published Aug 7, 2026
CVE-2026-64638 — WordPress Pre-Auth Reflected XSS → RCE via DOM Clobbering + Application Password Theft + REST API Plugin Activation. Dual-mode PoC (XSS chain & direct).
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCrenzi25031469/CVE-2026-64638-WordPress-Core-XSS2ShellPublished Aug 7, 2026
Template Nuclei para detecção não-intrusiva do XSS2Shell, um parser differential pré-autenticado no WordPress Core que permite injeção de elementos DOM na página de login, servindo de base para uma cadeia de XSS → RCE.
Open source ↗
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