CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) due to inadequate nonce validation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to create new administrator accounts by tricking site administrators into performing specific actions. This vulnerability can be exploited without prior account access, leveraging WordPress's method-override feature to bypass authentication. WordPress site administrators using versions up to 3.6.5 should prioritize immediate updates to mitigate this high-severity risk.
Original NVD Description
The AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.5 This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the reauth_for_authorize function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrator accounts with attacker-supplied credentials via a CSRF-based REST authentication bypass, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This bypass can be combined with WordPress's ?_method=POST method-override support to convert a top-navigation GET request into an authenticated POST to the REST users endpoint, requiring no existing account on the attacker's part.