CVE-2025-4431

Featured Image Plus <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Featured Image Update

4.3 Medium

The Featured Image Plus – Quick & Bulk Edit with Unsplash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the fip_save_attach_featured function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update featured image of any post.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Exploit likelihood

0.31%Up 0.3 points since May 30, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 4.3

Featured Image Plus <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Featured Image Update

Record: CVE-2025-4431
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-284
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-16472 4.3

Record: EUVD-2025-16472
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-v9mc-4jxq-vw83 4.3

The Featured Image Plus – Quick & Bulk Edit with Unsplash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to...

The Featured Image Plus – Quick & Bulk Edit with Unsplash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the fip_save_attach_featured function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update featured image of any post.

Record: GHSA-v9mc-4jxq-vw83
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-284, CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 4.3

Record: CVE-2025-4431
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-284, CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-4431 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Krasenslavov Featured Image Plus, published May 30, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.31%, the 23rd percentile. No source names a fixed version.