Vulnerability · Published Aug 8, 2026 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2026-16955AI Engine < 3.6.6 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Read via Audio Transcription

Medium 5.0

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in AI Engine from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.0Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	AI Engine	0 – before 3.6.6

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1b413d84-61c7-4e19-a693-312d74f618ff/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description