# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vjwp-h27m-5g29

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5570?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-51409/): WordPress AI Engine plugin <= 1.9.98 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-34440](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-34440/): WordPress AI Engine plugin <= 2.2.63 - Auth. Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2024-29100](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29100/): WordPress AI Engine plugin <= 2.1.4 - Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2025-5071](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5071/): AI Engine 2.8.0 - 2.8.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insufficient Authorization to Privilege Escalation via MCP (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-6238](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6238/): AI Engine 2.8.4 - Insecure OAuth Implementation (high 8.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5570 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5570 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: tigroumeow AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5570/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5570/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5570
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5570
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5570

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