Live › vulnerability › CVE-2026-94268
Go to dashboardThe Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin and its PRO edition, before 0.9.2.8, mishandle the update-user action in the front-end Forms module. An unauthenticated visitor can bypass the guard on administrator accounts, take over the site administrator's account and receive a valid session for it.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Sites running the free or PRO Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin below that use its front-end Forms module to update users. Exploitation requires the site to publish two separate front-end form configurations whose targets are mapped to visitor-submitted values, so sites without the Forms module or with only one such form are less exposed. Sites on the fixed version or without the Forms module can skip it.
0.9.2.8No product ranges from the sources yet.
0.9.2.8 are affected.0.9.2.8 or later.0.9.2.8 or later.Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended WordPress plugin before 0.9.2.8, Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO WordPress plugin before 0.9.2.8 does not resolve the target of the update-user action in its front-end Forms module consistently between the stage that authorises the request and the stage that carries it out, which allows unauthenticated visitors to bypass the guard protecting administrator accounts, take over the site administrator's account and be issued a valid session for it. Exploitation requires the site to publish two separate front-end form configurations whose targets are mapped to visitor-submitted values.
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