Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-5292
CVE-2023-5292
Description
The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'acfe_form' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.8.9.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:acfextended:advanced_custom_fields_extended:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=0.8.9.3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2972880/acf-extendednvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dcbe0c72-d518-45d3-a220-896a51071b26nvdProductThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.8.9.3/includes/modules/form/module-form-front.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-extended/tags/0.8.9.4/includes/modules/form/module-form-front.phpnvdProduct
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