WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.2 - 0.9.2.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Front-End User Insert Action

Description

The plugin does not restrict the role submitted through its front-end user forms to the roles the form actually offers, and its safeguard against privileged roles is incomplete, allowing unauthenticated visitors to register an account with elevated capabilities and then escalate it to administrator.
This is distinct from CVE-2025-14533: the guard added in 0.9.2.2 to address that report does not cover this path, which is why releases from 0.9.2.2 onwards are affected.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 0.9.2.7

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jakub Herman
Submitter
Jakub Herman
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-08-31 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-08-31 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-08-31 (about 1 day ago)

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