Advanced Custom Fields < 6.3 - Contributor+ Custom Field Access

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• advancedcustomfields advanced custom fieldsbefore 6.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Unknown Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

  • before 6.3affected · semver

• Unknown Advanced Custom Fields Pro

  • before 6.3affected · semver

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2023-30777WordPress Advanced Custom Fields / Advanced Custom Fields PRO plugins <= 6.1.5 vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
  36Monitor
• CVE-2023-1196Advanced Custom Fields - Contributor+ PHP Object Injection
  35Monitor
• CVE-2022-2594Advanced Custom Fields 5.0-5.12.2 - Unauthenticated File Upload
  35Monitor
• CVE-2021-20865Advanced Custom Fields versions prior to 5.11 and Advanced Custom Fields Pro versions prior to 5.11 contain a missing authorization vulnerab
  31Monitor
• CVE-2022-40696WordPress Advanced Custom Fields Plugin 3.1.1-6.0.2 is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure
  30Monitor
• CVE-2024-9529Secure Custom Fields < 6.3.6.3 - Admin+ Remote Code Execution
  26Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.