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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-13794
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 15, 2025
Last Updated February 11, 2026
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug auto-post-thumbnail (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.2.1
Patched Version
  • 4.2.2
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