CVE-2026-1981

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.

CVSS v3 4.3 MEDIUM

4.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L193
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L38
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L193
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L38
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3468726%40winston-ai-wp&new=3468726%40winston-ai-wp
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1a82073-ab63-42dd-9bc0-d21f53a5af25?source=cve

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-03-07 00:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:16

NVD link : CVE-2026-1981

Mitre link : CVE-2026-1981

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-1981

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

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