CVE-2026-75797: CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in AI Engine
The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.7.2 does not confine a caller-supplied URL when mapping it to a local filesystem path before reading the file and forwarding its 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.
CVE-2026-75797: CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in AI Engine
Description
The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.7.2 does not confine a caller-supplied URL when mapping it to a local filesystem path before reading the file and forwarding its 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 v3.1
Score 7.7high
Affected software
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- WPScan
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-18T09:09:43.127Z
- Cvss Version
- null
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a8e82bcacd9273b4979d4a0
Added to database: 08/26/2026, 06:07:56 UTC
Last updated: 08/26/2026, 22:52:13 UTC
Views: 4
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