Medium severity · published Aug 8, 2026
CVE-2026-16955
AI Engine < 3.6.6 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Read via Audio Transcription
5.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AE
AI Engine ·
before 3.6.6 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16955
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-16955
wpscan.com
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1b413d84-61c7-4e19-a693-312d74f618ff/
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