Wordfence Argus Discovers Critical Vulnerability in Ghostscript, the Program That Turns Uploaded PDFs into Thumbnails on Your Server

On September 8, 2026, Artifex released Ghostscript 10.08.0, closing a critical heap buffer overflow that the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, using Wordfence Argus, discovered and reported sixteen days earlier. It is tracked as CVE-2026-39919 and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. A crafted PDF containing a JPEG 2000 image can make Ghostscript … Read more

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026)

Last week, there were 501 vulnerabilities disclosed in 367 WordPress Plugins and 9 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 201 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected. Our mission with … Read more