# Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

> Use external image URLs for WordPress featured images and WooCommerce product images. No uploads required. FIFU PRO adds videos and galleries.

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## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `featured-image-from-url`
- Author: fifu.app
- Version: 6.1.5
- Active installs: 60,000+
- Last update: 2026-11-05 (1 day ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.2 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.6, PHP 8.1
- Tags: external image, featured image, image url, product image, remote image
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-from-url/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 1 day ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- FLAG: Requires PHP 8.1 or newer, above WordPress's own minimum (PHP 7.4).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Breaking ↔ Smooth, Slows pages ↔ Speeds up, Slow ↔ Responsive, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible, Paywalled ↔ Generous, Cluttered ↔ Clean.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-10-09 MEDIUM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 6.0.7). CVE-2026-96671, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/75ba5ffa-aba7-4b70-9724-a6380ccda933?source=api-prod
- 2026-10-01 HIGH: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 6.0.7). CVE-2026-101147, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b86171d2-444b-4db7-95f4-742fd325b04f?source=api-prod
- 2026-08-13 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-site Scripting (up to 5.3.3). CVE-2026-73340, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fd88dbfa-231e-4dce-ac99-23a6a8075102?source=api-prod
- 2026-01-09 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery via 'fifu_input_url' (up to 5.3.1). CVE-2025-13393, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b7115070-b84d-4d69-993a-f512b9f9c081?source=api-prod
- 2025-10-06 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Featured Image Custom Fields (up to 5.2.7). CVE-2025-7400, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4eeaf05-ec86-4d99-bc00-81f7f99e88ce?source=api-prod
- 2025-09-25 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection (up to 5.2.7). CVE-2025-10037, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/54c1b0e9-6fab-4452-b232-953e671f4d8d?source=api-prod
- 2025-09-25 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization to Password Protected Post Disclosure (up to 5.2.7). CVE-2025-9984, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9423858b-74be-4b34-961d-97765d8edcbf?source=api-prod
- 2025-09-25 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Information Exposure via Log File (up to 5.2.7). CVE-2025-9985, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/991d63da-ca6c-400e-beb7-b44cf629abc9?source=api-prod
- 2025-09-25 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection (up to 5.2.7). CVE-2025-10036, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ed54fe33-6467-4af2-ba28-dd17287d8f92?source=api-prod
- 2024-07-05 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 4.8.2). CVE-2024-37516, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/88fb7e43-26b1-44e4-864a-e6bd6f2c48fa?source=api-prod
- 2024-06-28 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 4.8.1). CVE-2024-37276, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20813a6f-672e-4c06-a5a6-737483f4d402?source=api-prod
- 2024-02-19 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via fifu_input_url (up to 4.6.2). CVE-2024-1496, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7d1ea1c5-6a9e-4b77-bfdf-62e50d4a4c03?source=api-prod
- 2023-12-14 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via featured image alt text (up to 4.5.3). CVE-2023-6561, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4d5ae93-000e-4001-adfa-c11058032469?source=api-prod
- 2022-07-05 MEDIUM: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 4.0.0). CVE-2022-2278, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/89ea4709-f637-4932-9dbd-8b3fccab45a8?source=api-prod
- 2022-06-30 HIGH: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 3.9.9). CVE-2022-2241, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/09ed1806-31b9-4851-99b1-a30eef4979a1?source=api-prod
- 2019-12-24 HIGH: Missing Authorization on REST API routes (up to 2.7.7). WF-4270a5c2-abc0-4505-9683-030dc08a462d, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4270a5c2-abc0-4505-9683-030dc08a462d?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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