# Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail)

> Automatically generate, assign, and manage featured images in bulk so every post on your site has a featured image.

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-13 09:32 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `auto-post-thumbnail`
- Author: Themeisle
- Version: 5.0.9
- Active installs: 40,000+
- Last update: 2026-11-05 (8 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.6, PHP 7.4
- Tags: auto featured image, featured image, featured image from title, post thumbnails, thumbnails
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-thumbnail/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 8 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Slows pages ↔ Speeds up, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible, Behind ↔ Current, Heavy ↔ Light, Pushy ↔ Fair, Closed ↔ Agent-ready.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-07-13 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery (up to 5.0.4). CVE-2026-61970, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f06b745-8968-41cb-96b0-ff0f42af114d?source=api-prod
- 2025-12-15 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Thumbnail Modification (up to 4.2.1). CVE-2025-13794, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29b0fd97-a669-42bb-b01e-bdc0395d697e?source=api-prod
- 2024-07-11 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 4.1.2). CVE-2024-38719, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aecf61bc-4d89-41ba-b99f-669193be64d1?source=api-prod
- 2024-05-30 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery (up to 4.1.7). CVE-2023-7073, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc024183-0244-4ef9-9171-057ecd1c3e1d?source=api-prod
- 2024-04-25 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery (up to 4.1.3). CVE-2024-33629, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/309eb1df-728f-404d-a20d-a83a0ab8ed0c?source=api-prod
- 2023-02-07 HIGH: Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload (up to 3.9.15). CVE-2023-0477, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/18ff2556-9e20-42f6-a8fb-b81473c42576?source=api-prod
- 2021-11-15 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 3.9.2). CVE-2021-24932, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/222325e9-3048-45f7-9a66-a713d096d44e?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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