CVE-2026-1981

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 Reserved 2026-02-05 | Published 2026-03-06 | Updated 2026-03-06 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Abhirup Konwar finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-ab63-42dd-9bc0-d21f53a5af25?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...i-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...i-wp/trunk/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...tags/0.0.3/ajax/Ajax_Admin.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...wp&new=3468726%40winston-ai-wp

cve.org (CVE-2026-1981)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-1981)

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