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CVE-2023-7073: Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) <= 4.1.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

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 AJAX action. 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.

Affected products

• Creative Motion Auto Featured Image: through 4.0.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auto-post-thumbnail/tags/3.9.18/includes/class-apt.php#L947
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc024183-0244-4ef9-9171-057ecd1c3e1d?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auto-post-thumbnail/tags/3.9.18/includes/class-apt.php#L947
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc024183-0244-4ef9-9171-057ecd1c3e1d?source=cve

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