Vulnerability CVE-2023-7073


Published: 2024-05-31

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 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

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