Summary
WordPress Core contains a remote file inclusion vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to make page-template resolution include a chosen readable local `.php` file outside the active theme directories, leading to remote code execution.
- Vendor
- WordPress
- Product
- Core
- Added to KEV
- Sep 25, 2026
- Remediation due
- Sep 28, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-98
- EPSS
- 95.8% as of Nov 10
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References