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CVE-2026-15988 (GCVE-0-2026-15988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-01 06:48 – Updated: 2026-08-03 17:34

Title

AI Engine <= 3.6.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation via REQUEST_URI Substring Match

Summary

The AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.5 This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the reauth_for_authorize function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrator accounts with attacker-supplied credentials via a CSRF-based REST authentication bypass, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This bypass can be combined with WordPress's ?_method=POST method-override support to convert a top-navigation GET request into an authenticated POST to the REST users endpoint, requiring no existing account on the attacker's part.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Assigner

Wordfence

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-eng…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-eng…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-eng…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-eng…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3628…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
tigroumeow	AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress	Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.6.5 (semver)

Credits

UKO

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GHSA-RW28-999G-8CC4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-01 09:30 – Updated: 2026-08-01 09:30

Details

Severity

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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