ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 1.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Usermeta Update

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-3957
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 26, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The ACF Photo Gallery Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an insufficient restriction on the 'apg_profile_update' function in versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above, to update the user metas arbitrarily. The meta value can only be a string.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug navz-photo-gallery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9
Patched Version
  • 2.0
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