WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Crop-Thumbnails < 1.10.0 - Author+ Arbitrary Attachment Read and Overwrite via crop REST Endpoints

Description

The plugin does not perform object-level authorization when reading and re-cropping media attachments, allowing any authenticated user with the upload capability (the Author role by default) to read the metadata of, and overwrite the generated thumbnail files and stored metadata of, media attachments belonging to other users.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.10.0

References

Classification

Type
IDOR
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Pedro Pinho
Submitter
Pedro Pinho
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-10 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-10 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-10 (about 1 day ago)

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