Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain WordPress admin credentials
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DeliveryAuthenticate to admin panel
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ExploitSubmit crafted input to Kubio plugin endpoint
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ExecutionTrigger improper validation flaw
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ImpactCause site availability disruption (DoS)
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a valid WordPress administrator-level session (PR:H); the attacker must fully authenticate before any exploitation attempt is possible. The attack is conducted over the network (AV:N) with no additional attack requirements (AT:N) and no user interaction beyond the attacker's own session. Available data does not identify a specific plugin feature, endpoint, or non-default configuration setting as a prerequisite - the flaw appears accessible to any authenticated admin through standard plugin functionality. Exploitation is limited by: the high-privilege requirement, which blocks unauthenticated and low-privileged exploitation entirely; and the purely availability-based impact scope (VC:N, VI:N), which rules out data theft or remote code execution pathways from this flaw alone. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 score of 6.9 (Medium) reflects a vulnerability with meaningful but structurally constrained real-world risk. While the attack vector is network (AV:N) with low complexity and no attack requirements (AC:L, AT:N), the PR:H designation is a significant limiting factor - exploitation requires an already-authenticated WordPress administrator account, meaning an external attacker must first compromise admin credentials before triggering the flaw. No EPSS score was provided in the available data, and the vulnerability does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog and has no associated proof-of-concept, indicating no active exploitation at time of analysis. The availability-only impact profile (VA:H with VC:N and VI:N) classifies this as a denial-of-service class vulnerability with no data exfiltration or code execution pathway, further reducing its attractiveness to opportunistic threat actors. Real-world priority is moderate: organizations enforcing strong admin account hygiene - including MFA and minimal admin-role assignment - face limited additional exposure, while sites with weak or shared credentials carry greater residual risk. The 'Information Disclosure' tag in the source data conflicts with the CVSS vector and should not be relied upon for risk prioritization. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has obtained WordPress administrator credentials - via phishing, credential stuffing, or lateral movement within a compromised environment - authenticates to the admin panel and submits specially crafted input to a Kubio AI Website Builder handler. The plugin fails to properly validate this input, triggering resource exhaustion or a fatal processing error that causes a denial-of-service condition for the WordPress site. No public proof-of-concept exploit has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 31, 2026
Availability disruption in Kubio AI Website Builder (a WordPress page-builder plugin by Extend Themes) affects all versions before 2.9.1, exploitable by authenticated high-privilege users over a network connection. CWE-20 improper input validation allows a privileged attacker to submit malformed input to the plugin, producing a denial-of-service condition against the vulnerable system with no confidentiality or integrity impact. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the CVSS 4.0 score of 6.9 reflects the high-privilege requirement that substantially limits the realistic attacker pool.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Kubio AI Website Builder to version 2.9.1 or later, which resolves this improper input validation flaw. WordPress administrators can apply the update directly via the WordPress admin dashboard under Plugins > Updates, or by downloading the updated plugin from the WordPress plugin repository. The Tenable advisory at https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2026-58 should be consulted for additional technical context. As an interim compensating control, restrict the WordPress administrator role to the minimum number of trusted users and enforce multi-factor authentication for all admin accounts, since exploitation requires PR:H; this does not eliminate the vulnerability but eliminates the credential-compromise prerequisite. Sites where the Kubio builder is not actively in use may disable the plugin until patching is feasible, though doing so will affect rendering of Kubio-built page content.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Kubio AI Website Builder is a WordPress page-builder plugin developed by Extend Themes, identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:extend_themes:kubio_ai_website_builder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. The root cause is CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), a broad class of vulnerability in which user-supplied data is not sufficiently sanitized, bounded, or type-checked before use, enabling attacker-controlled values to affect program logic or resource consumption. In the WordPress plugin context, this class of flaw commonly manifests in REST API endpoints, AJAX action handlers, or block-attribute processors - areas where privileged users can supply structured data directly to plugin code. The provided CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) confirms the flaw is network-reachable, requires no special attack preconditions beyond admin credentials, and produces high availability impact on the vulnerable system only, with no confidentiality or integrity compromise and no scope change to subsequent systems.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Network-reachable but requires high privileges; impact is confined to availability on the vulnerable system only, with no confidentiality, integrity, or scope-change effects.
Primary rating from Vendor (tenable).
CVSS VectorVendor: tenable
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
Improper input validation vulnerability in Extend Themes Kubio AI Website Builder.
This issue affects Kubio AI Website Builder: before 2.9.1.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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EUVD-2026-68616
GHSA-5mqc-wggr-wp64
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