CVE-2026-1981
Winston AI <= 0.0.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Settings Deletion
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The HUMN-1 AI Website Scanner & Human Certification by Winston AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the winston_disconnect() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.0.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to reset the plugin's API connection settings via the 'winston_disconnect' AJAX action.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
winstonai · HUMN-1 AI Website Scanner & Human Certification by Winston AI
- affected ≤ 0.0.3
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1a82073-ab63-42dd-9bc0-d21f53a5af25?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L38 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L38 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L193 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L193 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3468726%40winston-ai-wp&new=3468726%40winston-ai-wp (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-10090 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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