CVE-2025-5570 Cross-site scripting in AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via the chatbot shortcode, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-5570?
CVE-2025-5570 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in tigroumeow AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress, published on 8 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the mwai_chatbot shortcode 'id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5570?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Meowapps Ai Engine.
How do I fix CVE-2025-5570?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5570 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2025-5570 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5570 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in tigroumeow AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress
- CVE-2023-51409 WordPress AI Engine plugin <= 1.9.98 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability
- CVE-2024-34440 WordPress AI Engine plugin <= 2.2.63 - Auth. Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability
- CVE-2024-29100 WordPress AI Engine plugin <= 2.1.4 - Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability
- CVE-2025-5071 AI Engine 2.8.0 - 2.8.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insufficient Authorization to Privilege Escalation via MCP
- CVE-2025-6238 AI Engine 2.8.4 - Insecure OAuth Implementation
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vjwp-h27m-5g29.