WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.7 - Unauthenticated Non-Administrator Account Takeover via Front-End User Update Action

Description

The plugin does not verify that the requester is authorised to edit the targeted user account in the update-user action of its front-end Forms module, performing that check only when the target account holds an administrator role, which allows unauthenticated visitors to overwrite any non-administrator account's credentials and obtain a session for that account. Exploitation requires the site to publish a form whose user-update action maps its target to a visitor-submitted value rather than to the default current user.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 0.9.2.8
Fixed in 0.9.2.8

References

Classification

Type
INCORRECT AUTHORISATION
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Submitter
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-21 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-10-21 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-21 (about 1 day ago)

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