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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] 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. Rea

[NVD] 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. Rea

mednvdPublished 2026-08-08

CVE-2026-16955 CVSS: None Published: 2026-08-08T07:17:11.440

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-defaul

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CVE-2026-16955cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16955