Featured Image from URL <= 4.8.1 - Missing Authorization

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-37276
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published June 28, 2024
Last Updated July 2, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad - Awesome Motive, Inc.

Description

The Featured Image from URL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the fifu_save_sizes_api() function in versions up to, and including, 4.8.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update size settings.

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Vulnerability Details for Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug featured-image-from-url (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.8.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.8.1
Patched Version
  • 4.8.2

Recent vulnerabilities in Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery via 'fifu_input_url' CVE-2025-13393 4.3 Dmitrii Ignatyev January 9, 2026
2 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.2.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Featured Image Custom Fields CVE-2025-7400 6.4 Muhammad Yudha - DJ October 6, 2025
3 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.2.7 - Missing Authorization to Password Protected Post Disclosure CVE-2025-9984 5.3 ifoundbug September 25, 2025
4 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.2.7 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure via Log File CVE-2025-9985 5.3 ifoundbug September 25, 2025
5 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.2.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection CVE-2025-10037 4.9 ifoundbug September 25, 2025
6 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.2.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection CVE-2025-10036 4.9 ifoundbug September 25, 2025
7 Featured Image from URL <= 4.8.2 - Missing Authorization CVE-2024-37516 4.3 Rafie Muhammad July 5, 2024
8 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 4.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via fifu_input_url CVE-2024-1496 6.4 Nikolas February 19, 2024
9 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 4.5.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via featured image alt text CVE-2023-6561 6.4 Webbernaut December 14, 2023
10 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 4.0.0 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-2278 5.5 Raad Haddad July 5, 2022

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