WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended < 0.9.2.8 - Unauthenticated RCE via Front-End Post Update Action

Description

The plugin does not perform any capability check when updating a post through one of its front-end form actions, allowing unauthenticated visitors to overwrite arbitrary posts, including the ones in which the site stores its own field definitions, which in turn leads to arbitrary code execution on the server. Exploitation requires the site to publish a form whose post-update action maps both its target and its content to visitor-submitted values.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 0.9.2.8
Fixed in 0.9.2.8

References

Classification

Type
RCE
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jakub Herman
Submitter
Jakub Herman
Submitter website
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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