What is CVE-2026-16600?

CVE-2026-16600 is a high-severity vulnerability in Smartaipress, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 7.7/10. Published 2026-08-29.

How severe is CVE-2026-16600?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.7 out of 10.

SSRF in Smartaipress

CVE-2026-16600

The SmartAIPress WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not perform a capability check on one of its AJAX actions and does not validate a user-supplied URL before fetching it server-side, allowing users with subscriber-level access and above to make the site retrieve arbitrary internal or external URLs and read the response, resulting in a full-read Server-Side Request Forgery.

Vulnerability class: SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.001 (3.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.7 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Unknown Smartaipress

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

References

contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-16600?: CVE-2026-16600 is a high-severity vulnerability in Smartaipress, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 7.7/10. Published 2026-08-29.
How severe is CVE-2026-16600?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.7 out of 10.