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Advanced Custom Fields <= 5.8.11 — Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2020-36172Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <5.8.12Update to 5.8.12 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) advanced-custom-fields

  1. Affected< 5.8.12
  2. Patched in5.8.12

Update to 5.8.12 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 5.8.12. Version 5.8.12 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.8.12, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The Advanced Custom Fields plugin before 5.8.12 for WordPress mishandles the escaping of strings in Select2 dropdowns, potentially leading to XSS.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)

All 26
More vulnerabilities in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.8.10Update to 6.8.11
CVE-2026-110813
Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Exposure
≤6.8.10Update to 6.8.11
CVE-2026-97189
Medium4.36.8.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
6.2.0 – 6.8.10Update to 6.8.11
CVE-2026-97190
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤6.8.10Update to 6.8.11
CVE-2026-97191
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Modification via Front-End Form '_post_title' and '_post_content' Parameters
≤6.8.1Update to 6.8.2
CVE-2026-8382

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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