Advanced Custom Fields <= 6.0.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Disclosure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2022-40696
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 18, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Juan Hoffmann
Description

The Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure in versions up to, and including, 6.0.2. While the ACF shortcode ensures that the ACF data being accessed is valid data that has been entered into ACF fields, it may be possible with certain site configurations, that contributor-level users may extract sensitive user or configuration data.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-custom-fields (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.0.2
Patched Version
  • 6.0.3
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