WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) < 6.8.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Field Value Update via Front-End Form

Description

The plugin does not restrict front-end form submissions to the fields that the form actually exposes, allowing unauthenticated users with access to a publicly accessible form to update the value of any of its fields on the bound post, including fields the form does not display.

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Sarawut Poolkhet (MisterHelloz)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-05-27 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2026-07-27 (about 27 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-27 (about 27 days ago)

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