CVE-2023-6985: 10web Ai Assistant

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The 10Web AI Assistant – AI content writing assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the install_plugin AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.18. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins that can be used to gain further access to a compromised site.

Affected products

• 10web Ai Assistant: before 1.0.19 (fixed in 1.0.19)

Published 2024-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.