CVE-2026-16955AI Engine < 3.6.6 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Read via Audio Transcription
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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.
- CVSS
- 5.0 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- WPScan
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Aug 11, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Unknown AI Engine unknown:ai_engine (from the name) | before 3.6.6 | CNA record |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1b413d84-61c7-4e19-a693-312d74f618ff/exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
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