# CVE-2025-4431: Featured Image Plus <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Featured Image Update

> Authenticated subscribers can modify featured images of any post due to missing capability checks in the Featured Image Plus WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 May 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v9mc-4jxq-vw83

## What is CVE-2025-4431?

CVE-2025-4431 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in krasenslavov Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager, published on 30 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4431?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Krasenslavov Featured Image Plus.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-4431?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-4431 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-4431 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-4431 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-4431 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in krasenslavov Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager, published on 30 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: krasenslavov Featured Image Plus – Bulk Edit Featured Images, Unsplash & Alt Text Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4431/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4431/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4431
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4431
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4431

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4431/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.