Quick Featured Images <= 13.7.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Image Manipulation

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2025-11176
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 14, 2025
Last Updated October 15, 2025
Researcher Lucas Montes (NiRoX)
Description

The Quick Featured Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 13.7.2 via the qfi_set_thumbnail and qfi_delete_thumbnail AJAX actions due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to change or remove featured images of other user's posts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug quick-featured-images (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 13.7.2
Patched Version
  • 13.7.3
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