CVE-2023-7073 (GCVE-0-2023-7073)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-31 14:31 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:27
VLAI?
Title
Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) <= 4.1.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
themeisle Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.1.7 (semver)
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Credits
Nex Team
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