Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 15, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-11176

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.

Patches

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Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-featured-images/tags/13.7.2/admin/class-Quick_Featured_Images_Columns.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f9a1cfc-5e52-40da-bb9d-8f2b46d37c8cnvd

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