CVE-2026-94262: Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.7 - Unauthenticated Non-Administrator Account Takeover via Front-End User Update Action
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.28% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- Fixed version: Unknown Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.8; Unknown Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO 0.9.2.8.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.8; Unknown Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO 0.9.2.8 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended WordPress plugin before 0.9.2.8, Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO WordPress plugin before 0.9.2.8 does not verify that the requester is authorised to edit the targeted user account in the update-user action of its front-end Forms module, performing that check only when the target account holds an administrator role, which allows unauthenticated visitors to overwrite any non-administrator account's credentials and obtain a session for that account. Exploitation requires the site to publish a form whose user-update action maps its target to a visitor-submitted value rather than to the default current user.
- Published
- Oct 23, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 21th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-863
Report tools
Action score
32
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
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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: Extended
- 0.9.2.7 and later · before 0.9.2.8affected · semver
Unknown Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO
- 0.9.2.7 and later · before 0.9.2.8affected · semver
Same product
unknown: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-94267Advanced Custom Fields: Extended < 0.9.2.8 - Unauthenticated RCE via Front-End Post Update Action36Monitor
- CVE-2026-94268Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.7 - Unauthenticated Administrator Account Takeover via Front-End User Update Action32Monitor
- CVE-2026-80467Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.2 - 0.9.2.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Front-End User Insert Action32Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-12526Sep 2, 2026 · Advanced Custom Fields: Extended < 0.9.2.7 - Unauthenticated Administrator Account Takeover via Front-End User Update Action32Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-94264Oct 23, 2026 · Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.8.9.4 - 0.9.2.7 - Contributor+ XSS via Form Shortcode Attributes27Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-94263Oct 23, 2026 · Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 0.9.2.4 - 0.9.2.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Form Success Message19Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown Advanced Custom Fields: Extended | 0.9.2.8 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Unknown Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO | 0.9.2.8 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
- Published
- Fix recordedsame day
- TodayOct 30, 2026+8 d
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Karthik Ramakrishnanfinder
- WPScancoordinator
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-1384 · Oct 23, 2026(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-863 · Incorrect AuthorizationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
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.
Change log
- CVSS— → 8.1
- Severity— → high
- SSVC exploitation— → none
- Exploit maturity— → none
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.