Path Traversal in Ai Engine
CVE-2026-75797
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.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
EPSS: 0.002 (8.9th 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 Ai Engine
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-75797?
- CVE-2026-75797 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ai Engine, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.7/10. Published 2026-08-26.
- How severe is CVE-2026-75797?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.7 out of 10.