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
References
CVE
Classification
Type
PRIVESC
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Jakub Herman
Submitter
Jakub Herman
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
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)