{"id":78546,"date":"2026-05-17T05:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8719-ai-engine-3-4-9-authenticated-subscriber-privilege-escalation-via-missing-authorization-in-mcp-oauth-bearer-token\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:27:02","slug":"cve-2026-8719-ai-engine-3-4-9-authenticated-subscriber-privilege-escalation-via-missing-authorization-in-mcp-oauth-bearer-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8719-ai-engine-3-4-9-authenticated-subscriber-privilege-escalation-via-missing-authorization-in-mcp-oauth-bearer-token\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8719 &#8211; AI Engine 3.4.9 &#8211; Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Missing Authorization in MCP OAuth Bearer Token"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8719<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 17, 2026, 2:27 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 31\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :The AI Engine \u2013 The Chatbot, AI Framework &amp; MCP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in version 3.4.9. This is due to missing WordPress capability enforcement in the MCP OAuth bearer-token authorization path, where any valid OAuth token causes MCP access to be granted without verifying administrator privileges. This makes it possible for authenticated (Subscriber+) attackers to invoke admin-level MCP tools and escalate privileges to Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8719 Published : May 17, 2026, 2:27 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 31\u00a0minutes ago Description :The AI Engine \u2013 The Chatbot, AI Framework &amp; MCP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in version 3.4.9. This is due to missing WordPress capability enforcement in the MCP OAuth bearer-token authorization path, where any &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}