Quick Featured Images <= 13.7.2 — Insecure Direct Object Reference to Image Manipulation
CVE-2025-11176Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤13.7.2Update to 13.7.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Quick Featured Images quick-featured-images
- Affected≤ 13.7.2
- Patched in13.7.3
Update to 13.7.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 13.7.2. Version 13.7.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Quick Featured Images.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 13.7.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Quick Featured Images to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Lucas Montes (NiRoX).
The Quick Featured Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 13.7.2 via the qfi_set_thumbnail and qfi_delete_thumbnail AJAX actions due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to change or remove featured images of other user's posts.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.9 | Authenticated (Editor+) SQL Injection via delete_orphaned ≤13.7.3Update to 13.7.4 | CVE-2025-11980 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Thumbnail Deletion/Setting ≤13.7.0Update to 13.7.1 | CVE-2024-3664 |
- Medium4.9Authenticated (Editor+) SQL Injection via delete_orphaned
≤13.7.3Update to 13.7.4
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Thumbnail Deletion/Setting
≤13.7.0Update to 13.7.1
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.