CVE-2026-15384: Manual Image Crop (WordPress plugin) · Improper Authentication
Affects Manual Image Crop (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.7 Medium : upgrade to 1.15 when convenient.
Data as of 14 Nov 2026, 20:44 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 4% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 1.15
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 16 Aug 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 14 Nov 2026.
What to do
Upgrade Manual Image Crop (WordPress plugin) to 1.15.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Manual Image Crop | Affected
| Fixed in
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AI-suggested
If you cannot patch yet, restrict user roles and capabilities to trusted users only and monitor for suspicious activity related to media modifications. Avoid granting subscriber-level users unnecessary access to media management features.
Description
The Manual Image Crop WordPress plugin before 1.15 does not perform any capability check or nonce verification on the authenticated AJAX action that crops attachment images; its only guard passes for any logged-in user. A subscriber-level user can therefore supply an arbitrary attachment ID and overwrite that attachment's generated intermediate-size image (for example its thumbnail) and mutate its stored metadata, regardless of who owns the media. This is a cross-user integrity/defacement issue over the Media Library. The action also has no nonce, so it is additionally susceptible to CSRF.