WP Remote Thumbnail
WP Remote Thumbnail has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it remains unpatched as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 8.8, and the most serious one scores 8.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.
The most common weakness is Unrestricted Upload Of File With Dangerous Type, behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for WP Remote Thumbnail has no published fix yet, which makes virtual patching the only reliable mitigation. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.
All of these findings were reported by Le Ngoc Anh. WP Remote Thumbnail is installed on roughly 60 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
CVE-2025-32140WP Remote Thumbnail <= 1.3.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Upload
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WP Remote Thumbnail
Author
Nirmal Kumar Ram
WP Remote Thumbnail is a very lightweight WordPress plugin that comes with zero configuration and one-click setup. Using this plugin, you can easily set any external image as the featured image of any post/page or even custom post types. This plugin automatically adds a custom metabox to each post type that supports post thumbnails. You just need to copy and paste the URL of any image into the metabox and click publish/update.
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