{"id":"CVE-2026-1981","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-1981","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:22:30.602Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2026-03-07T00:16:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:16:49.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00295,"percentile":0.2193,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L193","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L38","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L193","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/winston-ai-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php#L38","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3468726%40winston-ai-wp&new=3468726%40winston-ai-wp","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1a82073-ab63-42dd-9bc0-d21f53a5af25?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1981","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}