CVE-2025-8268

medium

Description

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the rest_list and delete_files functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to list and delete files uploaded by other users.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be39e24f-d7d7-44db-9ffd-a4605de8e577?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/2.9.5/classes/modules/files.php#L664

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/2.9.5/classes/modules/files.php#L645

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/2.9.5/classes/modules/files.php#L518

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-03

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0006