CVE-2023-1196

Advanced Custom Fields - Contributor+ PHP Object Injection

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: May 2, 2023
Updated: Jan 30, 2025
Reserved: Mar 6, 2023

Description

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Free and Pro WordPress plugins 6.x before 6.1.0 and 5.x before 5.12.5 unserialize user controllable data, which could allow users with a role of Contributor and above to perform PHP Object Injection when a suitable gadget is present.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)Unknown	5.0.0 to before 5.12.5Affected 6.0.0 to before 6.1.0Affected
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) ProUnknown	5.0.0 to before 5.12.5Affected 6.0.0 to before 6.1.0Affected

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cf376ca2-92f6-44ff-929a-ace809460a33exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8e5ec88e-0e66-44e4-bbf2-74155d849edeexploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

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