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