CVE-2025-12937 (GCVE-0-2025-12937)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-18 08:27
Modified
2025-11-18 14:26
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
valentinpellegrin ACF Flexible Layouts Manager Version: *   ≤ 1.1.6
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