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ghsa-9cg3-r62g-92w5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-11-18 09:30

Modified

2025-11-18 09:30

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

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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  "id": "GHSA-9cg3-r62g-92w5",
  "modified": "2025-11-18T09:30:52Z",
  "published": "2025-11-18T09:30:52Z",
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    },
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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

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

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.

References

URL

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	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/915cce97-8305-4249-b2d3-c4da2f59a95a?source=cve
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-flexible-layouts-manager/trunk/includes/ajax/ajax-paste.php#L4

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	valentinpellegrin	ACF Flexible Layouts Manager	Version: * ≤ 1.1.6

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