CVE-2026-8382

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.8.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the post_title and post_content of any post bound to a publicly accessible acf_form() instance by injecting values into the _post_title and _post_content parameters of a form submission request.

CVSS v3 5.3 MEDIUM

5.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-custom-fields/tags/6.8.0/includes/forms/form-front.php#L243
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3549586/advanced-custom-fields/trunk/includes/forms/form-front.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ddb2290d-d4bd-4f70-9fe9-927f49721811?source=cve

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-05-31 04:16

Updated : 2026-07-22 07:10

NVD link : CVE-2026-8382

Mitre link : CVE-2026-8382

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-8382

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

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