What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-1336: AI ChatBot with ChatGPT and Content Generator by AYS <= 2.7.5 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated API Key Modification

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The AI ChatBot with ChatGPT and Content Generator by AYS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to missing capability checks on the store_data() and get_chatgpt_api_key() functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view, modify or delete the plugin's ChatGPT API key. The vulnerability was partially fixed in version 2.7.5 and fully fixed in version 2.7.6

Affected products

• ays-pro AI ChatBot with ChatGPT and Content Generator by AYS: through 2.7.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-chatgpt-assistant/tags/2.7.4/admin/class-chatgpt-assistant-admin.php#L4060
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-chatgpt-assistant/tags/2.7.4/includes/chatgpt-assistant-db-actions/class-chatgpt-assistant-db-actions.php#L23
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/53b3d441-4938-435f-85c3-707477f0293d?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2026-1336 or the next vulnerability affects your stack