CVE•Published 2026-07-14•Modified 2026-07-14•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-12511
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
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Description
The AI Engine WordPress plugin before 3.5.5 does not sanitize a user-supplied filename before using it to write a downloaded file, allowing authenticated users with editor-level access to write attacker-controlled bytes to an arbitrary location on the server via path traversal.
Timeline
Published 2026-07-14
Modified 2026-07-14
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-12511Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-12511Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-12511Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-12511GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-12511" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.