CVE-2026-16955

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 08 Aug 2026, 07:17 UTC Last modified 08 Aug 2026, 07:17 UTC

Attack profile

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Attack vector Not assessed

Attack complexity Not assessed

Privileges required Not assessed

User interaction Not assessed

Scope Not assessed

Confidentiality Not assessed

Integrity Not assessed

Availability Not assessed

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Weakness classification is still awaiting analysis.

Source references

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NVD National Vulnerability Database recordnvd.nist.gov 01 Technical reference contact@wpscan.com