CVE-2026-15988 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 16.07.2026 Published: 01.08.2026 Updated: 01.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor tigroumeow
Product AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.6.5 (incl.)

Credits

  • UKO finder

References

Problem Types

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