Featured Image Plus <= 1.6.4 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Featured Image Update
CVE-2025-4431Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.6.4Update to 1.6.6 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
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager featured-image-plus
- Affected≤ 1.6.4
- Patched in1.6.6
Update to 1.6.6 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.6.4. Version 1.6.6 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.6.6, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to hashiramasenju333.
The Featured Image Plus – Quick & Bulk Edit with Unsplash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the fip_save_attach_featured function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update featured image of any post.
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
More in Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager
All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.5 | Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery ≤1.6.6Update to 1.6.7 | CVE-2025-5818 |
- Medium5.5Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery
≤1.6.6Update to 1.6.7
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.