CVE-2026-16955CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2026-16955

Medium · published August 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00342 · 26.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-08-08T11:17Z
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 AUG 06:00Z
    AI Engine < 3.6.6 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Read via Audio Transcription
    cvelistv5