Quick Featured Images, CVE-2025-11176

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-11176
Home page URL: Security reports for Quick Featured Images
Application: Quick Featured Images
Published on: Oct 15, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions: max 13.7.3.
Status: vulnerable