CVE-2025-12844: tigroumeow ai engine – the chatbot, ai framework & mcp for wordpress Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-12844 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in tigroumeow ai engine – the chatbot, ai framework & mcp for wordpress. EPSS estimates a 0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37.7% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.1.9.

Timeline

1. 13-11-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-04-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection via PHAR Deserialization in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.8 via deserialization of untrusted input in the 'rest_simpleTranscribeAudio' and 'rest_simpleVisionQuery' functions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software, which means this vulnerability has no impact unless another plugin or theme containing a POP chain is installed on the site. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it may allow the attacker to perform actions like delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code depending on the POP chain present.

• CWE-502Deserialization of Untrusted DataThe product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.