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Critical · 9.8 Public exploit CVE-2026-8809 EUVD-2026-33165GHSA-jvvq-c627-79xm

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended <= 0.9.2.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Validation Bypass to '_acf_post_id' Parameter

Published May 28, 2026 · Updated May 29, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Validation Bypass in all versions up to and including 0.9.2.5. The vulnerability exists due to the after_validate_save_post() function unconditionally trusting the attacker-controlled _acf_post_id POST parameter — with no authentication or integrity verification — to select a cleanup branch that silently discards all validation errors not prefixed with acfe:. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to suppress both the role allow-list validation error added by acfe_field_user_roles::validate_front_value() and the administrator-role capability guard error added by acfe_module_form_action_user::validate_action(), causing wp_insert_user() to execute with an attacker-supplied administrator role argument and resulting in the creation of a new administrator-level user account. Exploitation requires the target site to expose a public ACFE frontend form configured with a Create User action that maps a role field.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
hwk-fr Advanced Custom Fields: Extended ≤ 0.9.2.5 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • izxci/CVE-2026-8809 ★ 0 · Jun 12, 2026

    Advanced Custom Fields: Extended <= 0.9.2.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Validation Bypass to '_acf_post_id' Parameter

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