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WordPress 7.0.4 Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

WordPress on Wednesday announced patches for a high-severity vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely.

Tracked as CVE-2026-65640 (CVSS score of 8.8), the security defect can be exploited by attackers with Author-level user or higher permissions via malicious Postscript file uploads.

According to WordPress’ advisory, the issue affects only installations that use Imagick and Ghostscript, as it was discovered in Ghostscript’s handling of certain embedded files. Successful exploitation requires that an attacker has file upload rights.

“WordPress version 7.0.4 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,” the web content management system’s maintainers announced.

The vulnerability resides in how ImageMagick (through the Imagick extension) and WordPress handle various types of files: ImageMagick looks at the contents, while WordPress looks at the file extension, vulnerability management...

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What's The Difference Between Your iPhone's Do Not Disturb And Focus Modes?

Your iPhone has more ways to silence notifications than you realize. Filipe Espósito for Engadget Notifications can get really annoying, especially during a meeting or at bedtime. The good news is that your iPhone has plenty of ways to silence and suppress them: Do Not Disturb, Focus modes and, of

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Spanish Grand Prix: How to Watch the F1 Race Today

Round 14 of the 2026 Formula One season sees the drivers enter the unknown as they take on a Madrid street circuit making its first appearance on the F1 schedule. Our Picks Bottom Line Apple TV now costs $15 per month in the US for the standalone, ad-free streaming service.

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Quote of the day by Motorola's cell phone pioneer Martin Cooper: 'People want to talk to other people — not a house, or an office, or a car' — blueprinting the start of a new era of communications

The American engineer Mark Cooper is considered one of the leading pioneers of the wireless communications industry, envisioning a world in which people would communicate wherever they were and not from fixed locations. Without his work in the mid-20th century, the mobile communications industry would arguably be non-existent. Hello Moto

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A Look Inside My Career As A B2B Product Marketing Manager in IT (Part 1)

Hi! My name is Anya. I run the Product Pulse Telegram channel, work as a PMM in tech (B2B to be precise), and also consult on marketing, product, and career-related topics. Today, I’m going to tell you all about my career path and share some of my tips — and

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What's The Difference Between Your iPhone's Do Not Disturb And Focus Modes?

Spanish Grand Prix: How to Watch the F1 Race Today

Quote of the day by Motorola's cell phone pioneer Martin Cooper: 'People want to talk to other people &mdash; not a house, or an office, or a car' &mdash; blueprinting the start of a new era of communications

A Look Inside My Career As A B2B Product Marketing Manager in IT (Part 1)

Quote of the day by Motorola's cell phone pioneer Martin Cooper: 'People want to talk to other people — not a house, or an office, or a car' — blueprinting the start of a new era of communications