Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-40760 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-40760 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-40760?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 17 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Edge-Themes Behold <= 1.5.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-40760?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-40760 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-40760?
- Check whether you run Edge-Themes Behold at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A PHP Object Injection vulnerability exists in the Edge-Themes Behold theme for WordPress in versions up to and including 1.5. The flaw is rooted in the deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502), allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject PHP objects. If a suitable Property-Oriented Programming (POP) chain is present in the environment, this can lead to various high-impact attacks including remote code execution, SQL injection, or arbitrary file deletion. The vulnerability is mitigated in version 1.6.
Affected products
- Edge-Themes Behold <= 1.5
Timeline
- 2026-02-24: other: Vulnerability reported by Denver Jackson
- 2026-04-20: disclosed: Initial disclosure by Patchstack
- 2026-06-17: advisory: NVD publication date