CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-15988
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-08-12
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/3.6.2/labs/mcp-oauth.php#L120 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/3.6.2/labs/mcp-oauth.php#L121 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/3.6.2/labs/mcp-oauth.php#L127 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/3.6.2/labs/mcp-oauth.php#L49 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3628188/ai-engine/trunk/labs/mcp-oauth.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fai-engine/tags/3.6.5&new_path=%2Fai-engine/tags/3.6.6 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/45816c45-42bc-4163-b700-a1e913f32c97?source=cve www.wordfence.com