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AI Engine <= 3.1.8 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection via PHAR Deserialization

CVE-2025-12844Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.1.8Update to 3.1.9 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High7.1
CVSS
7.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-502 PHP Object Injection
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

AI Engine – MCP Server & AI Chatbot for WordPress, with Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini ai-engine

  1. Affected≤ 3.1.8
  2. Patched in3.1.9

Update to 3.1.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.1.8. Version 3.1.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under AI Engine – MCP Server & AI Chatbot for WordPress, with Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.1.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch AI Engine – MCP Server & AI Chatbot for WordPress, with Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to ISMAILSHADOW.

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection via PHAR Deserialization in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.8 via deserialization of untrusted input in the 'rest_simpleTranscribeAudio' and 'rest_simpleVisionQuery' functions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software, which means this vulnerability has no impact unless another plugin or theme containing a POP chain is installed on the site. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it may allow the attacker to perform actions like delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code depending on the POP chain present.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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≤3.8.6Update to 3.8.7
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Medium4.2Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Media File Deletion via 'metadata' Parameter
≤3.8.4Update to 3.8.5
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Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤3.8.6Update to 3.8.7
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Same weakness (PHP Object Injection)

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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