🛡️ CVE-2026-16954

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.6.4 does not redact secret configuration values before exposing them in an admin page's inline script data, allowing users with the Editor role to read the site's stored third-party API key and authentication tokens in cleartext, despite those secrets being restricted to administrators everywhere else.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16954 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16954 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-06
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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