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CVE-2025-4431: Featured Image Plus <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Featured Image 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: 2025-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The Featured Image Plus – Quick & Bulk Edit with Unsplash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the fip_save_attach_featured function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update featured image of any post.

Affected products

• krasenslavov Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager: through 1.6.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image-plus/trunk/inc/admin/block-editor/block-editor-actions.php#L204
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3300380/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3303087/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/209341fa-6761-4bc4-a921-afa98495a087?source=cve

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