CVE-2025-8084: AI Engine <= 3.1.8 - Authenticated (Editor+) Server-Side Request Forgery

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-11-18 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.8 via the rest_helpers_create_images function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. On Cloud instances, this issue allows for metadata retrieving.

Affected products

AI Engine: through 3.1.8

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/2.9.5/classes/rest.php#L742
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-engine/tags/2.9.5/classes/services/image.php#L89
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3b497bc0-bf47-43c7-9d5f-8e130dd0bab2?source=cve

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