Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 5, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-6701

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.

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Affected products

Advancedcustomfields/Advanced Custom Fields
cpe:2.3:a:advancedcustomfields:advanced_custom_fields:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=6.2.4
WordPress/Advanced Custom Fieldsllm-fuzzy
Range: <=6.2.4
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3022469/advanced-custom-fieldsnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e3593dfd-7b2a-4d01-8af0-725b444dc81bnvdThird Party Advisory
www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-2-5-security-release/nvdRelease Notes

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