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CVE-2025-5071 (GCVE-0-2025-5071)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-19 09:23 – Updated: 2025-06-20 13:11
VLAI
Title
AI Engine 2.8.0 - 2.8.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insufficient Authorization to Privilege Escalation via MCP
Summary
The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'Meow_MWAI_Labs_MCP::can_access_mcp' function in versions 2.8.0 to 2.8.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to have full access to the MCP and run various commands like 'wp_create_user', 'wp_update_user' and 'wp_update_option', which can be used for privilege escalation, and 'wp_update_post', 'wp_delete_post', 'wp_update_comment' and 'wp_delete_comment', which can be used to edit and delete posts and comments.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-20 12:49 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
tigroumeow AI Engine Affected: 2.8.0 , ≤ 2.8.3 (semver)
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Credits
István Márton
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