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CVE-2026-97191VulnerabilityPublished

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) WordPress plugin before 6.8.11 does not re-apply its field-group location rules when

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-97191· Medium

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 6.8.11 when convenient.

Data as of 7 Nov 2026, 07:37 UTC

Severity
Medium

Rated Medium by Threat Radar's AI analysis · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
Patch
Available – fixed in 6.8.11

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 7 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 6 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) (WordPress plugin) to 6.8.11.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)Affected
  • <6.8.11
Fixed in
  • 6.8.11

AI-suggested

Upgrade the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) WordPress plugin to version 6.8.11 or later, where this issue is fixed. No other mitigation is indicated in the available data.

Description

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) WordPress plugin versions before 6.8.11 have a vulnerability where field-group location rules are not re-applied when saving values through the post editor. This allows users with contributor-level access and above to write custom fields that are normally restricted to administrators onto their own posts.

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