CVE-2023-7073

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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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc024183-0244-4ef9-9171-057ecd1c3e1d?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auto-post-thumbnail/tags/3.9.18/includes/class-apt.php#L947

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-05-31

Updated: 2026-04-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0012