WordPress vulnerabilities3 known to be exploited.

Vendor3 known exploited
The short answer

WordPress has 621 published vulnerabilities across 50 products in our catalogue. 3 of them are on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is WordPress, with 578. If you run WordPress software, patch the exploited flaws first.

See the exploited flaws

The most recent WordPress flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2026-63030, on 21 July 2026. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Products

Which WordPress products have the most vulnerabilities?

WordPress leads with 578 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

Which WordPress vulnerabilities are being exploited?

3 flaws are on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 9.8
    CVE-2026-63030CriticalKnown exploited
    WordPress Core Interpretation Conflict Vulnerability

    WordPress Core contains an interpretation conflict vulnerability that could allow an attacker to perform SQL Injection and achieve Remote Code Execution.

    Chance of use11%Known exploited since21 Jul 2026
  2. 5.9
    CVE-2026-60137MediumKnown exploited
    WordPress Core SQL Injection Vulnerability

    WordPress Core contains a SQL injection vulnerability when a plugin or theme passes untrusted input to the parameter.

    Chance of use5.3%Known exploited since21 Jul 2026
  3. 9.8
    CVE-2016-10033CriticalKnown exploited
    PHPMailer Command Injection Vulnerability

    PHPMailer contains a command injection vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input.

    Chance of use>99%Known exploited since7 Jul 2025
Exploit likelihood

Which WordPress flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. >99%
    CVE-2016-10033CriticalKnown exploited

    The mailSend function in the isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.18 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code via a \" (backslash double...

    CVSS9.8Published30 Dec 2016
  2. 98%

    WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database.

    CVSS7.5Published6 Jan 2022
  3. 98%

    The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the...

    CVSS9.8Published30 Dec 2016
  4. 92%

    WordPress through 5.0.3 allows Path Traversal in wp_crop_image().

    CVSS6.5Published20 Feb 2019
  5. 87%

    wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-users-controller.php in the REST API implementation in WordPress 4.7 before 4.7.1 does not properly restrict listings of post authors, which allows remote attackers to...

    CVSS5.3Published15 Jan 2017
  6. 86%

    Wordpress is an open source CMS. A user with the ability to upload files (like an Author) can exploit an XML parsing issue in the Media Library leading to XXE attacks.

    CVSS6.5Published15 Apr 2021
  7. 85%

    WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 exhibit different behavior for a failed login attempt depending on whether the user account exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames.

    CVSS5.0Published10 Jul 2009
  8. 85%

    The register_routes function in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in the REST API in WordPress 4.7.x before 4.7.2 does not require an integer identifier, which allows remote attackers...

    CVSS7.5Published3 Apr 2017
  9. 83%

    WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote code execution because an _wp_attached_file Post Meta entry can be changed to an arbitrary string, such as one ending with a .jpg?file.php substring.

    CVSS8.8Published20 Feb 2019
  10. 83%

    wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is...

    CVSS5.0Published25 Nov 2014
Every product

All WordPress products we track.

35 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

This directory lists the 35 WordPress products with at least one tracked version, of 50 in our catalogue.

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Our catalogue lists 621 published vulnerabilities across 50 products and 1,187 versions from WordPress. The most recent WordPress flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2026-63030, on 21 July 2026.

3 WordPress vulnerabilities are on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added are CVE-2026-63030, CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2016-10033. The full list is on this page.

WordPress, with 578 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

Create a Precursor Intelligence account and track the WordPress products you run. We match them against every published flaw, give each one a risk score from 0 to 100 and tell you as soon as we spot one that affects you, by email, in the app or by webhook.