Quick Featured Images: SQL injection
Quick Featured Images is affected by SQL injection. Exploitation requires at least editor-level access. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Quick Featured Images
- Plugin slug
quick-featured-images- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 08, 2025
This CVE was published Nov 08, 2025 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Quick Featured Images to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Quick Featured Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'delete_orphaned' function in all versions up to, and including, 13.7.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database, granted they can convince an author-level user or higher to add a malicious custom field value.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N