WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) < 6.8.11 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via HTML Attribute Name Injection

Description

The plugin does not properly sanitize a stored field definition that can be modified through its comment handling, allowing unauthenticated users to inject a payload that is emitted as an HTML attribute name and executed as JavaScript in the browser of any visitor or administrator who views a page rendering the affected field.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.8.11

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jakub Herman
Submitter
Jakub Herman
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-04 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-04 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-05 (about 8 hours ago)

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