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CVE-2024-5677: Featured Image Generator <= 1.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Images Upload

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2024-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Featured Image Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized image upload due to a missing capability check on the fig_save_after_generate_image function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary images to a post-related gallery.

Affected products

• aumkub Featured Image Generator: through 1.3.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image-generator/tags/1.3.1/admin/class-featured-image-generator-admin.php#L575
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/56161d67-7378-4349-8fe5-da73da36afa0?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image-generator/tags/1.3.1/admin/class-featured-image-generator-admin.php#L575
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/56161d67-7378-4349-8fe5-da73da36afa0?source=cve

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