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CVE-2025-14482: Crush.pics Image Optimizer <= 1.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Update

• 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: 2026-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Crush.pics Image Optimizer - Image Compression and Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to missing capability checks on multiple functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify plugin settings including disabling auto-compression and changing image quality settings.

Affected products

• crushpics Crush.pics Image Optimizer – Image Compression and Optimization: through 1.8.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crush-pics/trunk/inc/class-ajax.php#L193
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crush-pics/trunk/inc/class-ajax.php#L30
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crush-pics/trunk/inc/class-ajax.php#L66
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e71bf15-aee0-4efc-a1c6-faad9f6e4f38?source=cve

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