WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended < 0.9.2.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to the 'insert_user' function not restricting the roles with which a user can register. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply the 'administrator' role during registration and gain administrator access to the site. Note: The vulnerability can only be exploited if 'role' is mapped to the custom field.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 0.9.2.2

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
andrea bocchetti
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-01-19 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-01-20 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-11 (about 2 days ago)

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