Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-12937

Description

The ACF Flexible Layouts Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'acf_flm_update_template_with_pasted_layout' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update custom field values on individual posts and pages.

Affected products

WordPress/Acf Flexible Layouts Managerinferred
Range: <=1.1.6
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-flexible-layouts-manager

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/acf-flexible-layouts-manager/trunk/includes/ajax/ajax-paste.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/915cce97-8305-4249-b2d3-c4da2f59a95anvd

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