Quick Featured Images <= 13.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Thumbnail Deletion/Setting

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-3664
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 22, 2024
Last Updated April 23, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Quick Featured Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the set_thumbnail and delete_thumbnail functions in all versions up to, and including, 13.7.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to delete thumbnails and add thumbnails to posts they did not author.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug quick-featured-images (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 13.7.0
Patched Version
  • 13.7.1
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