High severity7.7NVD Advisory· Published Aug 29, 2026· Updated Aug 31, 2026
CVE-2026-16600
CVE-2026-16600
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.
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Affected products
2<=1.2.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=1.2.0
- (no CPE)range: <=1.2.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 24, 2026 to August 30, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Sep 3, 2026