Vulnerability in Perfect Images: Regenerate Thumbnails, Image Sizes, WebP & AVIF — CVE-2025-11455
MediumSeverity
—Estimated exploit probability
60,000+ sitesInstalls
7.2.1Fixed in
What to do now
Update Perfect Images: Regenerate Thumbnails, Image Sizes, WebP & AVIF to 7.2.1 or later.
Affected versions
- Everything up to and including 7.2.0
Affected: Perfect Images: Regenerate Thumbnails, Image Sizes, WebP & AVIF (plugin, wp-retina-2x)
What the vulnerability is
The Perfect Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the /wp-json/wp-retina-2x/v1/replace REST API in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.0 This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to replace files that do not belong to them.