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CVE-2025-13794: Auto Featured Image <= 4.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Thumbnail Modification

• 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: 2025-12-16 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected products

• themeisle Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail): through 4.2.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auto-post-thumbnail/tags/4.2.1/includes/class-plugin.php#L425
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-13794/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29b0fd97-a669-42bb-b01e-bdc0395d697e?source=cve

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