ACF Flexible Layouts Manager <= 1.1.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Custom Field Update

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2025-12937
CVSS	Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published	November 17, 2025
Last Updated	November 18, 2025
Researcher	Ahmad Salem (a7mad.cc)

Description

The ACF Flexible Layouts Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'acf_flm_update_template_with_pasted_layout' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update custom field values on individual posts and pages.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	acf-flexible-layouts-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.1.6
Patched Version

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