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CVE-2026-16600
Unknown SmartAIPress — SmartAIPress <= 1.2.0 - Subscriber+ Server-Side Request Forgery via smartaipress_openai_upload_and_set_featured_image
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L L N C H N N 7.7 .0019 8.3 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
SmartAIPress unspecified —
TIMELINE
Jul 22 Reserved by WPScan
Aug 29 Published (CNA: WPScan)
Aug 30 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-16600 (Unknown SmartAIPress). Public exploit reference added.
Description
The SmartAIPress WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not perform a capability check on one of its AJAX actions and does not validate a user-supplied URL before fetching it server-side, allowing users with subscriber-level access and above to make the site retrieve arbitrary internal or external URLs and read the response, resulting in a full-read Server-Side Request Forgery.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| July 22, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by WPScan |
| August 29, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: WPScan) |
| August 30, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-16600 (Unknown SmartAIPress). Public exploit reference added. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| Unknown | SmartAIPress | — | — | — |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-16600 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Sunday, October 4, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.
