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

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Iain 54 minutes ago in Security 0

Wordfence found a critical heap overflow in Ghostscript (CVE-2026-39919, CVSS 9.8) that a crafted PDF can turn into remote code execution. Ghostscript is what makes PDF thumbnails on many WordPress hosts, so check your server is on 10.08.0 or later.

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