CVE-2026-16955 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: WPScan
Reserved: 24.07.2026 Published: 08.08.2026 Updated: 08.08.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Unknown
Product AI Engine
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.6.6 (excl.)

Credits

  • Revanth Hari Narayana Matte finder
  • WPScan coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE