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Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail)
auto-post-thumbnail
total installs
50,000
total vulns
2
critical
0
high
1
medium
1
low
0
latest vuln
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patched
2
unpatched
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avg time to patch
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vulnerabilities
(2)
Auto Featured Image <= 4.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Thumbnail Modification
medium
✓ patched
The Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the bulk_action_generate_handler function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to delete or generate featured images on posts they do not own.
Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) <= 4.1.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery
high
✓ patched
cve id
CVE-2025-10145 ↗
cvss score
7.7
cwe
CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
published
Oct 27, 2025
The Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.7 via the upload_to_library function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. On Cloud instances, this issue allows for metadata retrieval.