Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.2.7 - Missing Authorization to Password Protected Post Disclosure

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-9984
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 25, 2025
Last Updated September 26, 2025
Researcher ifoundbug

Description

The Featured Image from URL (FIFU) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the fifu_api_debug_posts() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read private/password protected posts.

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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 5.2.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.2.7
Patched Version
  • 5.2.8

Recent vulnerabilities in Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 5.3.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-site Scripting CVE-2026-73340 6.4 luc August 12, 2026
2 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
3 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
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 <= 4.8.1 - Missing Authorization CVE-2024-37276 5.3 Rafie Muhammad June 28, 2024
9 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
10 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

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