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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV N L L N C L N N 5.0 .0023 14.2 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed AI Engine unspecified —
TIMELINE Jul 24 Reserved by WPScan Aug 8 Published (CNA: WPScan) Aug 10 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-16955 (Unknown AI Engine). Public exploit reference added.
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.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| July 24, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by WPScan |
| August 8, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: WPScan) |
| August 10, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-16955 (Unknown AI Engine). Public exploit reference added. |
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | AI Engine | — | — | — |
Authoritative record: CVE-2026-16955 at cve.org
Weaknesses: CWE-22
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