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AI Engine 2.8.0 — 2.8.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insufficient Authorization to Privilege Escalation via MCP

CVE-2025-5071Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: 2.8.0 – 2.8.3Update to 2.8.4 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
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. Affected2.8.0 – 2.8.3
  2. Patched in2.8.4

Update to 2.8.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run 2.8.0 – 2.8.3. Version 2.8.4 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 2.8.4, 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 István Márton.

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'Meow_MWAI_Labs_MCP::can_access_mcp' function in versions 2.8.0 to 2.8.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to have full access to the MCP and run various commands like 'wp_create_user', 'wp_update_user' and 'wp_update_option', which can be used for privilege escalation, and 'wp_update_post', 'wp_delete_post', 'wp_update_comment' and 'wp_delete_comment', which can be used to edit and delete posts and comments.

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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≤3.9.1Update to 3.9.2
CVE-2026-123478
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤3.8.8Update to 3.8.9
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High7.5Missing Authorization to Administrator Account Takeover via Unauthenticated MCP OAuth Client Registration
≤3.8.6Update to 3.8.7
CVE-2026-110732
Medium4.2Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Media File Deletion via 'metadata' Parameter
≤3.8.4Update to 3.8.5
CVE-2026-107745
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤3.8.6Update to 3.8.7
CVE-2026-112828

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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