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CVE-2026-5524

Published
CVSS9.8
Severitycritical
WeaknessCWE-434
EPSS3.5%89.1th percentile
Exploited1 KEV source

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Called exploited the same day it was disclosed.

Measured from the CVE publication date to the earliest of 1 KEV catalogue that list it.

The life of this vulnerability

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Which catalogues call it exploited

Sources1 of 3
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This rests on a single catalogue. No second catalogue corroborates the claim that it is being exploited. CIRCL is an aggregator and is not counted.

Public exploitation evidence

1 public report collected from VulnCheck and CIRCL, first on Jul 2, 2026. Each links to its original source. We have not verified them.

Description

The Divi Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload leading to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to and including 5.1.8. This is due to insufficient file extension validation in the do_image_upload() function where user-supplied input from the acceptFileTypes POST parameter is directly interpolated into a regular expression used to validate uploaded files. Attackers can specify PHP-executable extensions such as .phtml, .phar, .php5, or .php7 to bypass the plugin's .htaccess protection which only blocks .php files specifically. Additionally, on Nginx-based servers, the .htaccess protection is completely ineffective as Nginx does not process .htaccess files

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