Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), CVE-2023-6701

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-6701
Home page URL: Security reports for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
Application: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
Published on: Feb 06, 2024
Research Description: The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a custom text field in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max 6.2.5.
Status: vulnerable