CVE-2023-7073: Creative Motion Auto Featured Image

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Creative Motion Auto Featured Image: up to and including 4.0.0
• Themeisle Auto Featured Image Auto Post Thumbnail: up to and including 4.1.7

Published 2024-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.