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CVE-2026-120534VulnerabilityPublished

The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited Code Injection in all versions

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-120534· Critical 9.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.8 Critical.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026, 07:42 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
9.8Critical
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (Wordfence)CVSS 3.19.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 3 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 2 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
ACF ExtendedAdvanced Custom Fields: Extended PROAffected
  • <=0.9.2.6
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, administrators should avoid enabling the 'shortcode_preview' setting and ensure that the server environment has OpenSSL functions available to prevent fallback to insecure base64 decoding. Monitoring vendor channels for updates is recommended.

Description

The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO plugin for WordPress up to version 0.9.2.6 is vulnerable to a limited code injection vulnerability via the render_field function. This flaw arises from insufficient validation of form configuration parameters, allowing unauthenticated attackers to invoke arbitrary WordPress functions with controlled arguments. Exploitation requires either enabling the non-default 'shortcode_preview' setting or a server environment lacking OpenSSL functions, which causes fallback to unverified base64 decoding.

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