Private/Unpublished Upload in Sitemap

Hi

I’ve been looking at this site recently and a few errors have been thrown up recently about the sitemap and uploads. I wasn’t entirely sure what it was, if it was the sitemap generation or some modification to the upload process.

I thought that it might be the upload itself that is unpublished, but looking at the database it seems the upload/image post inherits the publish status. This is when I realised some images were being uploaded via a WP Bakery image carousel on a draft page and is why the page itself doesn’t load – this makes complete sense.

So the issue I am having is that these unpublished images are appearing in the sitemap which is not ideal. Is there any way to exclude these or is there a way for me to add custom conditioning either in the interface or in the PHP files?

Hopefully this all makes sense!

Thanks,
Tom