Path Traversal in Ai Engine

CVE-2026-16955

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.002 (13.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.