Description
The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.6.6 does not confine a caller-supplied file path before reading it and forwarding the contents to an external service, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to read arbitrary files from the server and exfiltrate them off-host. Reaching the issue at subscriber level requires a non-default public API feature to be enabled; otherwise the same issue is reachable by an administrator, which on multisite allows a non-super subsite administrator to read the network-shared configuration and its secrets.
Published: 2026-08-08
Score: 5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Ai Engine Project
Ai Engine Project ai Engine
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Ai Engine Project
Ai Engine Project ai Engine
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-22

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.6.6 does not confine a caller-supplied file path before reading it and forwarding the contents to an external service, allowing users with a subscriber-level account to read arbitrary files from the server and exfiltrate them off-host. Reaching the issue at subscriber level requires a non-default public API feature to be enabled; otherwise the same issue is reachable by an administrator, which on multisite allows a non-super subsite administrator to read the network-shared configuration and its secrets.
Title AI Engine < 3.6.6 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Read via Audio Transcription
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Ai Engine Project Ai Engine
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-11T19:40:52.619Z

Reserved: 2026-07-24T08:07:58.902Z

Link: CVE-2026-16955

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-11T19:40:37.855Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-08T07:17:11.440

Modified: 2026-08-11T20:17:32.363

Link: CVE-2026-16955

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T10:15:07Z

Weaknesses