AI Engine Plugin up to 3.7.1 on WordPress Public API path traversal

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in AI Engine Plugin up to 3.7.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Public API. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-75797. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in AI Engine Plugin up to 3.7.1. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Public API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-75797 since 08/18/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.7.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• AI Engine Plugin

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• 3.7.0
• 3.7.1

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