CVE-2026-16600 SmartAIPress <= 1.2.0 - Subscriber+ Server-Side Request Forgery via smartaipress_openai_upload_and_set_featured_image
Subscribers can exploit missing capability checks and URL validation in SmartAIPress to perform Server-Side Request Forgery and read internal or external data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-16600?
CVE-2026-16600 is a high-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Unknown SmartAIPress, published on 29 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The SmartAIPress WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not perform a capability check on one of its AJAX actions and does not validate a user-supplied URL before fetching it server-side, allowing users with subscriber-level access and above to make the site retrieve arbitrary internal or external URLs and read the response, resulting in a full-read Server-Side Request Forgery.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-16600?
How do I fix CVE-2026-16600?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-16600 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2026-16600 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-16600 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6m7h-pqmp-qmm7.