U.S. CISA adds WordPress flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Brief
U. S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds WordPress flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
The U. S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a WordPress Core flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score of 9. 2), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog .
CVE-2026-87902 allows an unauthenticated attacker to make the get_page_template() function include a readable local PHP file outside the active theme directories. Under specific server and theme conditions, the flaw can lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability is being actively exploited, with attackers using pearcmd. php to write malicious PHP files and execute code.
This week, WordPress released version 7.
- 2 to address this flaw. It stems from how the CMS resolves page templates, with a real path to remote code execution.