WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

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

Description

The plugin does not resolve the target of the update-user action in its front-end Forms module consistently between the stage that authorises the request and the stage that carries it out, which allows unauthenticated visitors to bypass the guard protecting administrator accounts, take over the site administrator's account and be issued a valid session for it. Exploitation requires the site to publish two separate front-end form configurations whose targets are mapped to visitor-submitted values.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 0.9.2.8
Fixed in 0.9.2.8

References

Classification

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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