CVE-2024-38719: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in Creative Motion Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) WordPress plugin affecting versions through 4.1.2. The vulnerability was reported by Joshua Chan on March 28, 2024, and was assigned CVE-2024-38719. The issue was publicly disclosed on July 11, 2024 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, indicating that it requires network access, low attack complexity, and low privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

The vulnerability allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels, potentially enabling a subscriber-level user to execute certain higher privileged actions. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.1.3 of the Auto Featured Image plugin. Users are advised to update to version 4.1.3 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).