Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 31, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2023-7073

Description

The Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.7 via the upload_to_library AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

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Affected products

WordPress/Auto Post Thumbnailinferred
Range: <=4.1.7
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-thumbnail

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auto-post-thumbnail/tags/3.9.18/includes/class-apt.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc024183-0244-4ef9-9171-057ecd1c3e1dnvd

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