Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) <= 6.8.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Modification via Front-End Form '_post_title' and '_post_content' Parameters

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2026-8382
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published May 30, 2026
Last Updated May 31, 2026
Researcher Sarawut Poolkhet (MisterHelloz)

Description

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.8.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the post_title and post_content of any post bound to a publicly accessible acf_form() instance by injecting values into the _post_title and _post_content parameters of a form submission request.

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Vulnerability Details for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-custom-fields (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 6.8.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 6.8.1
Patched Version
  • 6.8.2

Recent vulnerabilities in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) <= 6.8.1 - Missing Authorization 5.3 Sarawut Poolkhet (MisterHelloz) May 27, 2026
2 Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) <= 6.7.0 - Unauthenticated Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Post/Page Disclosure via AJAX Field Query Parameters CVE-2026-4812 5.3 Fernando Mecozzi April 14, 2026
3 Advanced Custom Fields <= 6.4.2. - HTML Injection CVE-2025-54940 4.1 Shogo Kumamaru August 8, 2025
4 Advanced Custom Fields <= 6.3.8 & Secure Custom Fields <= 6.3.6.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-49593 4.4 Duc Luong Tran October 15, 2024
5 Advanced Custom Fields <= 6.3.8 - Authenticated (Admin+) Limited Arbitrary Function Call CVE-2024-9529 5.1 Automattic October 7, 2024
6 Advanced Custom Fields <= 6.3.5 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-45429 5.5 Ryo Sotoyama September 4, 2024
7 Advanced Custom Fields <= 6.2.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Custom Field Access CVE-2024-4565 4.3 Scott Kingsley Clark, Francesco Carlucci May 30, 2024
8 Advanced Custom Fields <= 6.2.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom Field CVE-2023-6701 6.4 Francesco Carlucci January 17, 2024
9 Advanced Custom Fields 6.1 - 6.1.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-40068 4.4 Satoo Nakano, Ryotaro Imamura August 3, 2023
10 Advanced Custom Fields (Free and Pro) 5.8.10 to 5.12.5 & 6.0.0 to 6.1.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'post_status' CVE-2023-30777 6.1 Rafie Muhammad May 4, 2023

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