---
id: CVE-2025-11980
title: >-
  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
  suffici…
summary: >-
  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
  suffici…
severity: medium
cvss: 4.9
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-89
published: '2025-11-08'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T21:10:00.200'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11980'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-featured-images/tags/13.7.3/admin/class-Quick_Featured_Images_Tools.php#L785
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-featured-images/tags/13.7.3/admin/class-Quick_Featured_Images_Tools.php#L817
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3388701%40quick-featured-images&new=3388701%40quick-featured-images&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/590720a3-1881-4a5d-b004-ad92d386afe6?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00307
epssPercentile: 0.21574
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T21:54:14.994Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.