CVE-2025-11176: Quick Featured Images <= 13.7.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Image Manipulation

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-10-15 · updated 2026-10-11
Weakness: CWE-639

Description

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.

Affected products

kybernetikservices Quick Featured Images: through 13.7.2

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-featured-images/tags/13.7.2/admin/class-Quick_Featured_Images_Columns.php#L506
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3376996%40quick-featured-images%2Ftrunk&old=3271680%40quick-featured-images%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f9a1cfc-5e52-40da-bb9d-8f2b46d37c8c?source=cve

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