CVE-2026-15988

AI Engine <= 3.6.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation via REQUEST_URI Substring Match

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Aug 1, 2026
Updated
Aug 3, 2026
Reserved
Jul 16, 2026

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Description

The AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.5 This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the reauth_for_authorize function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrator accounts with attacker-supplied credentials via a CSRF-based REST authentication bypass, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This bypass can be combined with WordPress's ?_method=POST method-override support to convert a top-navigation GET request into an authenticated POST to the REST users endpoint, requiring no existing account on the attacker's part.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWordfence

Weaknesses

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPresstigroumeow
  • 3.6.5 and earlierAffected

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