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WordPress Plugin: advanced-custom-fields-pro: CVE-2023-6701: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jan 17, 2024

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 4, 2026

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.

Solution

advanced-custom-fields-pro-plugin-cve-2023-6701

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6701
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e3593dfd-7b2a-4d01-8af0-725b444dc81b?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-58922
CVE-2023-6701
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-6701
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2023-58922

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