Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) <= 4.0.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery

6.4
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-33629
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 25, 2024
Last Updated May 1, 2024
Researcher Yuchen Ji

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, 4.0.0. 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 which can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

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Vulnerability Details for Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug auto-post-thumbnail (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.0

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